Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jun 5: Police personnel of Konanakunta station here said that a third standard student of a school was electrocuted and that the head of the school management has been taken into custody. They said that they are continuing with the investigation and if found necessary, more would be arrested if they are found to be negligent.

The incident had happened in St Francis Convent School at Jambusavari Dinne in the city. A third standard student aged eight, identified as Akshay, had breathed his last in this incident. The Konanakunte police have arrested Elisa, head of the school managing committee.

Akshay was the only son of Muniraju, resident of J P Nagar second stage. After the summer holidays, Akshay had stepped into the school for the first time, when he was electrocuted. It later transpired that lights had been fitted to the stairs of the school and one of the wires connecting the lights had got severed and come in contact with the iron grill attached to the stairs. As Akshay held the railing when going up the stairs, he got killed. The students near Akshay were overtaken by fear as Akshay let out loud cry and fell down. Luckily they did not support Akshay as this would have exposed them to the danger of getting electrocuted, the police said. The school staff who came running, also did not know what to do as they realized that electricity was flowing through his body. One of them thereafter picked a wooden stick, separated Akshay from the railing and took him to a private clinic. The doctor there asked them to take Akshay to a hospital as his condition was serious. By the time he was taken to a hospital, he was no more.

The police who came to know about the incident filed case and arrested school management head, Elisa. The police had requested Bangalore Electricity Supply Company to provide them a report about the cause of the accident. The Bescom officials replied that the company is responsible for power connection till the electricity meter and thereafter the school authorities are responsible. The police said that more arrests are likely in this case.