Bhopal kid locked in car dies of suffocation

BHOPAL: In a tragic incident, a two-and-half-year-old kid, Atishay Jain, was found dead in a car outside his father’s shop in New Market on Friday afternoon. It is believed that kid died of suffocation after getting locked in the car for around two hours. Matter is under investigation, police said.
Atishay’s family informed the kid opened car’s lock after picking up keys from the shop and got inside it.Later they found him unconscious in the car and rushed him to a hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Meanwhile a police officer told TOI, “It appears the kid accompanied his parents to a temple but later slept in the car while they returned and his parents got down and got busy with work. By the time his parents realized the infant was missing, it was too late. Kid probably died of suffocation inside the car.”
Surprisingly, information about the incident was passed on to police by media as the family cremated the kid without informing police or getting an autopsy done. Police said statement of grieved family would throw some light in the case.
Kid, Atishay, son of Deepak, resided in New Market and his parents owned a shop named, Navrang Saree House located at the front row of market. They stay on the first floor of the shop.
Infant’s grandfather, Kamal Jain told that his son and daughter-in-law returned from temple and got busy with their routine jobs. Meanwhile, Atishay picked up car keys kept on shop’s counter and got inside, without being noticed by anyone. After failing to find him, family started looking for him and found him in the car, he said, adding the boy was taken out using duplicate keys.
Police officials said it has been confirmed that the kid had accompanied his parents to temple as he was seen playing there. However, he was left in the car after they returned.
Kid’s body would now be exhumed for autopsy to ascertain exact causes that led to his death, police said, adding that they would also search inside Maruti Dzire car in which the incident took place.
Atishay was the younger child and his parents were planning to send him to a play school later this week. Police officials are puzzled over family’s statement pointing if the kid got inside the car by opening central lock, he could have also come out. Secondly, if he opened the car and got inside, its original keys should be in the car.
Meanwhile, family members of the kid misbehaved with media persons gathered on the spot. When police asked the family why they did not report the matter to police, they told police they could not think of legal issues and in a state of shock got engaged in consoling grieved parents and later cremated body.
In the evening, a complaint was lodged at the TT Nagar police station where officials said they would initiate a probe and take all necessary action in the case.
Shops adjoining Navrang Saree were closed on Friday. Grieved family’s relatives also have shops in New Market.