Pune: Four students of Sahyadri School drowned in the Chaskaman Dam in the western part of Khed taluka on Thursday evening (19). This included two boys and two girls. This incident created a stir in Khed taluka. “Give us our children alive,” Tahoe relatives shouted at the school administration.
As the children were studying in the Sahyadri school, the teachers took the children to the dam without the permission of their parents. The school administration is responsible for this incident, they must be dealt with, the aggressive holy relatives have taken. Police Inspector Satish Gurav has assured the relatives that the incident will be thoroughly investigated. Among the dead were Kuldeep Agarwal (age 16), Navya Pragnesh Bhosale (age 16), Ritin D. Dhanshekhar (age 16), Tanisha Harshad Desai (age 16). Behind Parikshit, mother, father and brother are mentally retarded. Ritin was the only child of the parents. Tanisha is survived by her mother, father and elder sister.
According to the complaint lodged by Vinayak Ashok Sharma, Sahyadri School, K. F. As I is a residential school, it has 46 teachers. The school has a total capacity of 280 students. The last paper of 10th standard students was on 19th May from 11 am to 12:30 pm. After the students finished their meal, me and other teachers like Srinidhi Maheshi, Omna Santosh, Johnsy Thomas told us, ‘Today is our last paper and we have said goodbye to each other and we will go home to play in the water under the school hill’. Made such a request to us. At around 4.30 pm, three teachers and a total of 32 students went into the swollen water of Chaskaman Dam.
‘After about half an hour of student play in the water, a sudden storm came and the waves of water formed and our group of 32 students and we teachers were completely submerged. After that we teachers tried to hold each other’s hands and take the students out. However, only 28 out of 32 students were able to get out. However, four students were not found. We searched for the missing children with the help of villagers. At around 5 in the evening, a total of 4 students were found in the water one after the other. We pulled them out of the water. He was admitted to the hospital. However, by then he was dead ‘, informed the teacher.
