In a tragic incident,a child lost his life in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday after anoose tightened while rehearsing Bhagat Singh’s play for August 15.The incident took place at Badaun’s Babaat village.
Actually, somechildren were rehearsing Bhagat Singh’s play for August 15 at home. From amongthem, these people gave the character of Bhagat Singh to a child and put him onthe stool. As the foot slipped, the noose got tight in the neck. Due to theabsence of an elder at home, the children could not remove the noose. He sobbedfor a while and then he died.
After hearing thescreams of children, neighbours rushed to Shivam’s home. They found himhanging. The deceased’s father Bhure along with his wife also reached hishome.
The deceased has beenidentified as 10-year-old Shivam. He was playing the role of Shaheed BhagatSingh in the play. The family cremated the child without conducting apost-mortem.
Village head BhimsenSagar told that the children were playing. Parents were not at home. Theaccident happened in the game itself. In this regard, SO Ravi Karan said thatno complaint and complaint had come to the police station regarding theincident. There is no information about the incident.
One of such incidenthappened earlier in February 2020, a 12-year-old boy at Mandsaur in MadhyaPradesh died when he tried to imitate a scene of Bhagat Singh's hanging whilewatching a video of a play on mobile.
Previously, when theincident was reported, the police appealed to the parents to be careful."It is often seen that children try to imitate what they see on mobile. Insuch a situation, many similar incidents have been reported in the past whenchildren have even lost their life. In such a situation, this is an appeal toparents to consider it their duty to keep a close watch on what their kids areup to while they are using mobile phones," the SP said.