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15-Year-Old Dies After Sewer Chamber Collapse at Shivpuri Apartments

Negligence charges were filed against the owner after an extensive rescue operation prompted residents to protest construction safety

The girl was playing in the premises when she accidentally stepped onto the rusted lid of the old sewer tank.
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Overview

  • The girl, Utsavi, fell through a weakened sewer tank cover at Santushti Apartments on June 14 evening
  • State Disaster Response Force personnel, police and municipal workers spent nearly four hours retrieving her body from the 15-foot-deep chamber
  • Her father, Ravi Badhoria, lodged a complaint that led Kotwali police to charge owner Arjun Diwan under section 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
  • Residents staged a Sunday morning demonstration demanding Diwan’s arrest and a formal inquiry into the complex’s structural integrity
  • Witnesses reported the tank was filled with dirty water, mud and waste and that a bystander rescued Utsavi’s younger brother moments before his fall