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The last rites were carried retired connected Sunday.
Following a month-long conflict for survival, a 13-year-old girl— who suffered terrible pain injuries successful an alleged incidental of “accidental fire” astatine a authorities superior schoolhouse successful Godhra — died connected Saturday, said officials. While the household seeks clarity astir the series of events that led to her death, the main of the schoolhouse has been booked successful a lawsuit of ‘death owed to negligence’.
An FIR has been lodged astatine the Godhra B Division constabulary presumption against main Jayshree Patel nether the applicable Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) sections pursuing a ailment by student’s parent Surekha Parmar.
In the FIR, Parmar said that she received a telephone connected the greeting of August 16 from the Kajiwada Gujarati co-education schoolhouse that her girl Khushboo, a Class VIII student, has sustained “minor pain injuries”.
“However, connected reaching the hospital, I saw that my girl had sustained terrible pain injuries connected her thorax arsenic good arsenic her legs. When I asked however the mishap occurred, I was told that a tin of sanitiser was kept successful my daughter’s schoolroom connected the 2nd flood and the children were playing with the aforesaid erstwhile the occurrence started…”
In the FIR, Parmar was quoted arsenic saying that her girl was shifted to a backstage infirmary successful Vadodara wherever she underwent attraction until Saturday and succumbed to her injuries.
The household refused to judge the assemblage of the unfortunate until the FIR was lodged connected Saturday night.
The last rites were carried retired connected Sunday. Parmar, a widow, who works arsenic a home maid, said, “My girl has returned to God but I inactive bash not cognize what transpired successful the schoolhouse connected that day… How did the occurrence commencement and however did my girl prolong the burns? The constabulary has lone maintained that it is investigating the lawsuit but the information is that nary FIR was lodged until Saturday. As a mother, I privation to cognize what happened to my daughter.”
District Primary Education Officer Gayatri Patel said that a departmental enquiry had been initiated against the schoolhouse management. “The constabulary are investigating the lawsuit and we person besides started a departmental inquiry. Whoever is liable volition beryllium taken to task.”
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