Overview
- Police and neighbors found the two-year-old in an uncovered neighborhood drain near her Mukundpur home on Sunday, and doctors at BJRM Hospital declared her dead.
- Officers preserved the body for post-mortem and registered a case of causing death by negligence, with a preliminary inquiry pointing to an accidental fall and no foul play suspected.
- Following Tuesday’s directions from Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, the Irrigation and Flood Control Department dismissed the area’s contractual junior engineer and ordered agencies to map and fix hazardous open drains across the city.
- A letter obtained by The Indian Express shows I&FC asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi last July to take over desilting and upkeep of the small I&FC-built drain under a 2014 order that assigns such drains to municipal bodies.
- Family members and residents say workers removed concrete slabs during recent cleaning and did not replace them, and the citywide checks could force quick repairs before monsoon rains make open drains harder to see.