Overview
- On June 27, 18-month-old Priya fell face-first into a pot of boiling chickpeas in her parents’ rented home in Duddhi and suffered burns over more than 80 percent of her body.
- Doctors at the Community Health Centre referred her to the district hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries and was subsequently cremated by her family.
- Duddhi circle officer Rajesh Kumar Rai confirmed the inquiry determined the death to be accidental after officers arrived at the cremation site.
- Priya’s parents, Shailendra and Pooja Devi, operate a roadside golgappa stall and say cramped living conditions and economic pressures limit constant child supervision.
- The incident echoes the mid-2023 death of Priya’s older sister Saumya in a similar boiling-pot accident, highlighting recurring domestic safety hazards in low-resource households.