Overview
- The boy, identified as seven-year-old Shivansh Shailesh Dhut, entered a lift while playing and became caught between the collapsible grille and the wooden door on Monday night after the cabin started to move.
- Family members and residents searched for about an hour to 90 minutes before noticing the lift was stuck, breaking the door open and finding the child unresponsive.
- Residents broke open the lift before emergency teams arrived; fire brigade personnel and Sinhagad Road police carried out a rescue but the child was declared dead at the scene or on arrival at hospital.
- Police have registered an accidental-death FIR and asked the Pune municipal Lift Inspector and fire brigade for technical reports plus the housing society's maintenance and licensing records as part of the probe.
- Preliminary checks reported no immediate major technical fault and said the society handled maintenance, but investigators are collecting witness statements and documents to establish cause and any negligence, and the case has prompted calls for stricter lift audits and visible inspection records.