Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Sunday ordered <g data-gr-id="22">inspection</g> of all swimming pools in the national <g data-gr-id="23">Capital,</g> after a 13-year-old boy drowned in the swimming pool of a government school here.
“Inspect each and every swimming pool in Delhi,” Sisodia said, adding that the direction applies to both government and non-government swimming pools.
The Deputy Chief Minister, in a tweet, said the District Magistrate (DM) and the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of the area will carry out the inspection work.
Sisodia’s decision came after Mukul Sharma, a Class-VIII student of DAV Public School in Dayanand Vihar, drowned in the swimming pool of a government school in East Delhi’s Farsh Bazar area here.
The boy had gone to Delhi government-run Babu Ram School to learn <g data-gr-id="20">swimming</g> along with his cousin Vikas on May <g data-gr-id="21">22,</g> when the incident took place.
Police have registered a case against the <g data-gr-id="19">life guards</g> present at the swimming pool for alleged negligence, which they said led to the boy’s death.
“We have registered a case under Section 304(A) against two <g data-gr-id="18">life guards</g> – Bhaskar Kaushik and Jai Singh. Further investigations are underway,” the police had said.
Two school security guards held for dereliction of duty
Two <g data-gr-id="46">life guards</g> who were responsible for security at the government school pool where a 13-year-old boy drowned while learning to swim on Friday in East Delhi’s Farsh Bazar area were arrested on Sunday by the police.
Police had registered a case under Section 304(A) (causing death due to negligence) against the two life guards – Bhaskar Kaushik and Jai Singh on Saturday itself and they were arrested.
Mukul Sharma, a class eight student of DAV public school in Dayanand Vihar, who had gone to Delhi government-run Babu Ram School to learn swimming along with his cousin Vikas on Friday evening had drowned.
Mukul, the only child of his parents, lived in Delhi’s Vishwas Nagar area with the family and had joined swimming classes two days ago. According to police, Vikas had decided to sit beside the pool seeing it crowded but Sharma went into it.
“Around 30 minutes later, other swimmers brought him out of the pool. He was rushed to GTB hospital where he was declared brought dead. He apparently died due to drowning. The body has been sent for post mortem which would establish the exact cause of death,” said a senior police official.