Schoolboy’s death: HC reserves verdict

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court reserved its verdict on a plea seeking judicial inquiry into the deaths of two students, who had died after falling into water tanks

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court reserved its verdict on a plea seeking judicial inquiry into the deaths of two students, who had died after falling into water tanks of their respective educational institutions, and also for disaster management assessment of all schools here.

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A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal reserved the judgement after concluding hearing arguments on the plea filed by Col (retd.) Devinder Sehrawat, an AAP MLA from Bijwasan constituency here.

Divyansh, a six-year-old Class I student of Ryan International School in Vasant Kunj, died after falling in a tank in his school on January 30 this year.

On January 27, five-year-old Ankit had died after falling into an open septic tank in an MCD school in Kapashera area of south Delhi.