A 10-year-old boy, who went out to fly a kite on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, celebrated on January 14, never returned home. Durvesh Jadhav, a resident of Kandivali (West), fell into a large pit of dung and water, suffocated to death.
Jadhav, a class V student, lived in a neighbouring building at Shankar Pada and had ventured into a cow shed. Duresh lived with his parents in an SRA building.
Mumbaikars were shaken by this terrifying news. On Thursday afternoon, January 14, Durvesh had stepped out to enjoy the kite flying festival.
At 3.30 pm, he was at home with his mother when he saw a kite sweep down towards a cow shed next to his building. He informed his mother that he is going to retrieve a kite nearby.
However, Jadhav found a gap in one of the sheets and slipped inside. But he did not know that the cowdung and water inside was as deep as five feet. He slipped and fell inside.
A 20-year-old youth named Yusuf from another building was at the window of his seventh floor flat and witnessed the child fall in. He rushed down and entered the pit to pull the boy out. But Jadhav slipped back in twice as Yusuf struggled with him. Yusuf too was stuck in waist deep dung. Meanwhile, workers from a construction site nearby and local residents gathered.
A crane was brought in and a few men sat in its bucket to reach the spot where Jadhav had fallen. A doctor was summoned to the spot and he declared Jadhav dead. The Kandivali police were then summoned. Jadhav's body was sent for an autopsy. His father, who is a daily wage worker, was informed by residents.
An accidental death case has been recorded but the police will probe if the cow shed owner was at fault.
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