Kolkata: The two-year-old child who had sustained severe burn injuries after she was allegedly pushed towards a rice cooking pot during a scuffle between the owner and the tenant of a house at Ultadanga on Monday evening, succumbed to her injuries at SSKM Hospital in the wee hours on Saturday.
The doctors did their best to save the toddler who was undergoing treatment at Woodburn Block of SSKM Hospital with serious burn injuries in her head, face and chest. However, all their efforts proved futile. The family of the victim had lodged a complaint with Ultadanga police station on Monday night on the basis of which one Rajkumari Sau was arrested. She was granted bail at Sealdah Court on Tuesday.
" After the death of the child, Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) has been incorporated in the case," an investigating officer said.
According to sources, one Rajkumari Sau, along with her family members lived on rent in a house on Gorachand Saha Lane. Owner of the house Susen Saha who happens to be the father of the deceased had purchased the house 10 years back.
According to Saha, the Sau family has always been irregular in paying rent and whenever he asked for it, the latter behaved very rudely.
On the fateful evening, when the owner of the house went to ask for the rent, a heated argument ensued. During the altercation, the two-year-old child of Saha was sitting on the boundary wall of the house, while the rice was being cooked in a pot by its side, situated straight below where the child was sitting.
Suddenly, in a fit of rage, Rajkumari allegedly pushed the child and she fell near the cooking pot, spilling its contents on to her.
Hearing the sound of the child's cries, locals rushed to the spot and took the girl with serious burn injuries to a local hospital from where she was referred to SSKM.