NEW DELHI: “Please save me,” were the last words of the 11-year-old girl who died after an iron gate of the local electricity office fell on her in northeast Delhi’s Khajuri Khas on Monday. According to her family, an iron rod pierced her skull, but there was no attention paid to the girl for an hour at Jag Parvesh Chandra Hospital. Demanding compensation for the alleged neglect, the girl’s father, Vijay Pal, told TOI that Dolly was in intense pain in the hospital bed. “She kept crying to me to save her as she continued to bleed from her head wound. I don’t know how as a father I bore that,” said Pal. He has been an autorickshaw driver since 1992, his earnings feeding his family of seven. Pal was in Mehrauli when he got a phone call about his daughter’s accident near the BSES office. He drove directly to the hospital in Shastri Park. “No treatment was given to my daughter for over an hour. There was a delay in ambulance service,” he alleged. An enraged Pal told the hospital staff that he would take Dolly to another hospital. The girl was declared dead a little later. Calls and text messages that TOI sent to Dr Ritu Chawla, medical superintendent of JPC Hospital, went unanswered. Sanjay Sain, DCP (Northeast), said police registered a case under the Indian Penal Code’s sections 304 A (causing death by negligence) and 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others). An officer said, “The girl was with two friends when the iron gate of the BSES office fell on her. Policemen from Khajuri Khas police station took her to the hospital.” A BSES spokesperson said the electricity distributing company was cooperating with the authorities in the investigation. “This is a theft-prone area, where theft of iron gates, hinges, grilles, frames, etc are regularly reported,” another BSES official claimed. “As per the preliminary reports, miscreants seemed to have tried to steal the gate and parts of its structure, rendering it unstable.” Dolly had sat for her Class VI examination and was returning home when the incident happened. “She was the youngest of my five children. She was good in studies and aspired to become a doctor. She spoke English fluently,” said Pal, who is also a heart patient. According to the family, the government school where Dolly studied was a kilometre from her home in Sonia Vihar and she took the same route every day, even on the fateful Monday. Satpal, a neighbour, said that one of the friends who was with Dolly at the time of the incident informed her family members about the girl’s injury. He took the mother to hospital where she fainted on hearing of her daughter’s death.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/father-relives-trauma-of-girl-crushed-by-gate/articleshow/94185543.cms