Times of India
BANGALORE, Aug 22: On Wednesday evening, five-year-old Muniyamma was tugging at her father Hussain's trousers, crying, "Please come down, Mallesh is dying." But Hussain, a security guard at a flat in BTM Layout II Stage, didn't heed her cries and hushed her saying it was apashakuna (bad omen) to utter such words.
Little did he know his son Mallesh (7) had got stuck in the lift and died. By the time Hussain rushed to the ground floor, his son's body was squeezed between the lift doors. Hussain and his wife Hulithemma, who work in the apartment, have four daughters - Vasantha, Girijamma, Sanjemma and Muniyamma. Around 6 pm, Hulithemma had asked Mallesh to bring groceries and the boy had taken his sister Muniyamma with him. On his return, he pressed the ground-floor button of the lift. After it came down, he kept the doors open by placing his leg, waiting for his sister. The lift doors started closing and his leg got stuck. Mallesh couldn't pull himself out and was crushed to death.
The family, from Andhra Pradesh's Nanapuram, near Adoni, stayed in a fourth-floor room. Mallesh's body was taken to Nanapuram for the last rites.
Mallesh was Standard I student of Vidya Jyothi School.