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Post-mortem report: Asphyxiation killed the Ryan Intl School student
Divyansh’s father accused the school of covering up the matter and his mother doubted the circumstances that lead to her son’s death.
Two days after six-year-old Divyansh Kakrora’s body was found in his school’s water tank, it is reported that the AIIMS doctors investigating his death have concluded that it was asphyxia that killed the class 1 student of Ryan International School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi.
While the AIIMS preliminary report indicated asphyxiation (suffocation) due to aspiration of fluid into air passages as being the probable cause of the death and that there were no external injuries on his body, the doctors conducting the post mortem held off submitting the report until after examining the spot where the incident took place Saturday.
Divyansh’s father, Ramhit Meena, who is a paramedic at AIIMS, has accused the school of covering up the matter. “The principal didn't tell us
anything, she just asked us to keep quite. The police told us that our son was found dead in a tank. How would a six-year-old boy lift a 20 kg lid?” he questioned while his mother claimed that Divyansh’s body “was found in a naked state. We could not find his clothes.”
However, the principal, Sandhya Sabu, has refuted the allegation and claimed that Divyansh was a special child, who was “hyperactive” and had a tendency of running away from the classroom. She, however, could not explain how he fell into the water tank beneath the amphitheatre of the school.
“If Divyansh was a special needs child, why did the school never inform us of that? Were they not supposed to tell us?” Meena questioned.
Amid the growing outrage, the Delhi government on Sunday ordered all schools to file a ‘safety report’ within a month, saying arrogant and insensitive behaviour would not be tolerated with the deputy chief minister, Manish Sisodiya, taking up the matter personally with the state education department.