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Two-year-old Sonu brought out dead from borewell

Agra, October 13:: The lifeless body of two-year-old Sonu was on Monday pulled out by rescue workers, four days after he fell into a 150-ft deep borewell that was carelessly left uncovered allegedly by district authorities in Shamsabad town in Agra. Army and paramilitary personnel had joined locals in digging a p ....Read more

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SuggestionBy: Sanjay Raj | Monday , 13 Oct '08 18:06:36 PM Reply | Forward But the main fault is of his parents. Even they know that the place where they are working is dangerous, they don't care about their children and let them play alone aside. Then what can the government can do. My only suggestion is "Its is better to be safe then being worried after such situations".

sonuBy: bipin | Monday , 13 Oct '08 15:40:43 PM Reply | Forward its a disgrace that a life is lost due to utter negligence of the authority involved. severely punish the guilty party and the jal nigam. it is common place to see the holes, borewells, pot holes open on the main roads and in the vilages by the water, electricity, cable and other services. they do not value the life until one of their own goes down the drain. my heart goes out to the family of sonu. may sonu's soul rest in peace.

Two year old Sonu brought out dead from borewelBy: govinda | Monday , 13 Oct '08 15:31:55 PM Reply | Forward It is a very sad news. I request to Govt please take a hard action who are the rwsponsible for this. Govt should announce hard moneytary penalty to the accused and give minimun Rs.500000.00 to Sonu's parent. Govt should carefull for the future.

sonuBy: asif khan | Monday , 13 Oct '08 15:28:58 PM Reply | Forward The sonu is not the last person,there are millions and million corrupt officials and corrupt contractors who are and will be playing with the life of these teens specially with the poor ppeople's kids and shameless official as usual will declare the componsation of one lakh or so and will be feeling proud by thinking they not only serve the nation by helping the victims financially. shame on them

The employees should be tried for "willful negligence"By: Shiva Gopalakrishnan | Monday , 13 Oct '08 14:49:10 PM Reply | Forward the employees should be tried for willful Negligence only then will it be a lesson for the others.

SonuBy: Ramesh | Monday , 13 Oct '08 14:48:53 PM Reply | Forward The officials who are responsible for this accident must be charged with murder and should be punished accordingly. And the Government must pay atleast 10lakhs to the grieving family, and it should be considered that its an accident occured because of pure negligence.

National ShameBy: Ali | Monday , 13 Oct '08 14:28:52 PM Reply | Forward This is a National shame. There is no cost of Human value. We keep on fighting on communal and caste lines. And the unsung will die such deaths. Politicians divide people for this very reason so that issues such as these pertaining to infrastructure are relegated to the background. This is what we call India shining?

take them to courtBy: naveen | Monday , 13 Oct '08 13:56:28 PM Reply | Forward y cant they take irresponsible persons to court who fail to cover the borewell.

Two-year-old Sonu brought out dead from boreweBy: Prem | Monday , 13 Oct '08 13:22:55 PM Reply | Forward What a shame for the government to announce Rs. one lakh as compensation to the family of Sonu. This is too little a punishment for the government for the follies of its employees. The government must own the entire blame and compensate the parents of the child reasonably. It is immaterial as what the government may do with its careless and foolish employees.

SonuBy: Subham | Monday , 13 Oct '08 18:01:20 PM Reply | Forward This is unfornutate to declare that any project in our country is not processed through Risk Management and even if it is, no one really cares for the poor - and Sonu is an example. When can we learn this education of care am not sure. My heartfelt condolence to the family - a little child could not be saved - a little child who could have been tomorrow's pride.

Shame on usBy: Chirantan | Monday , 13 Oct '08 14:42:33 PM Reply | Forward Its a matter of shame for all of us.This isn't the first time that such an incident has happened and yet we fail to do anything about it.The first thing we can start with is to take the responsible "head of the department" and giving him imprisonment making this an example for all the govt clerks and officials to not to take their work so lightly.

Very BadBy: chopra | Monday , 13 Oct '08 13:52:14 PM Reply | Forward yes, you are right.

SonuBy: sumasushil | Monday , 13 Oct '08 23:46:50 PM Reply | Forward Shame on authorities who left the hole open carelessly and shame on parents who left the child unattended. Whatever could be the reasons for the authorities and the parents to have done what they did, it was very wrong of them to have been negligent.Authorities should be charged with murder case and punished accordingly. Care should be taken to see this incident does not repeat. Parents should be tried and given counselling for how they can keep their children safe in any kind of work environment they are forced to work in.This heart wrenching incident, I hope is the last such thing I hear in my lifetime! May God rest little Sonu's soul in peace!

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