Gurugram Accident: A horrific incident has occurred in a multi-story building in Sector 62, Gurugram. A 5-year-old boy died after falling from the 22nd-floor balcony of his home. According to police, the child was accidentally locked inside the house and is believed to have climbed onto the balcony railing while trying to call neighbors for help, losing his balance and falling.
Child Trapped Due to Auto-Lock
The tragic incident occurred on Saturday between 5:30 and 5:50 p.m. in Pioneer Presidia Society. The child had returned from the park with his caretaker. He ran into the house and slammed the door shut, activating the flat’s auto-lock mechanism, leaving the caretaker outside. An investigating officer explained, “The digital lock could only be opened with a passcode, which only the parents knew.” The child’s father is a builder and his mother a doctor, and both were at work at the time of the incident. Police said the child was a special needs child and was alone inside when the door closed.
Panicked, he went to the balcony, and the accident happened.
After the door was locked, the caretaker panicked and repeatedly called out to the child from inside to open it. When she failed, she immediately informed the parents and the building’s security staff. According to the police, the child, possibly out of panic, ran to the balcony and tried to call someone.
Sandeep Turan, PRO of Gurugram Police, said that the child climbed onto a clothes stand on the balcony and leaned on the glass railing, losing his balance and falling down. The police officer said that the entire incident occurred within 10-15 minutes, and rescue operations to break the main door could not be initiated because the parents were several kilometers away at the time.
After being spotted by passersby, the child was immediately rushed to a private hospital on Golf Course Road, where doctors declared him dead. The child’s father has denied any foul play and stated at the Sector 65 police station that his son’s death was an accident after he was locked in his apartment alone. The body was handed over to the family after a postmortem on Sunday.
