GREATER NOIDA: A 11-year-old boy remained trapped inside a lift for 45 minutes on Tuesday night at the Paramount Emotions society in Greater Noida. Even though his father contacted the police at midnight after the society maintenance team rescued the child, no complaint has been filed. Checking the CCTV footage on Wednesday, the maintenance team found that on his way home from his friend’s house, the boy from inside the lift and his friend standing outside it were repeatedly opening and closing the lift door on the tower S 16th floor. Starting around 11 pm, they kept pushing the lift buttons, inserting a bottle between the closing lift doors or coming in between them for nearly 15 minutes. After they allowed the lift to start moving, the boy got stuck between the 15th and 16th floors. “My child was stuck in between the two floors. The lift was working before he got stuck. He had gone to his friend’s house. Before going to sleep, we called his friend’s house to see if he had left. When he did not reach home after 15-20 minutes, I started searching for him in our society. I also posted his picture on our society’s group,” said the boy’s father. When he visited the boy’s friend’s house on the 16th floor, the friend informed him that the boy had taken the lift. “The S tower guard was with me. Trapped in the lift, my child continuously pressed the lift emergency button, and though we were in a different lift, I heard that sound. I told the guard about the sound, but he said it was usual,” said the father. The father later noticed the lift of the tower not moving. He forcefully tried to open the lift door from the 15th floor with the help of the residents. The guard also called the lift maintenance team that rescued the child. “The tower residents told me that the lift keeps malfunctioning. In our society, the guards have CCTV footage on their desks to view what’s happening in the lifts. However, this tower guard was on his phone and ignored the footage,” the father alleged on Wednesday. Chandan Choudhary, a society resident, said, “There is a CCTV camera inside every lift, with the footage appearing on the guard’s desk table. So, why did the guard not see this and stop the kids?” The SHO of Bisrakh Police station told TOI that they visited the society after the father called them, but no complaint has been filed till now. The maintenance team’s head, Hitesh Singh, said, “We have fixed the lift. We saw the CCTV footage and shared it with a fellow resident on Wednesday.”
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