12-yr-old dies while rehearsing Bhagat Singh execution scene in K’taka

A 12-year-old boy allegedly by chance hanged himself whereas rehearsing Bhagat Singh’s execution scene in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district on Sunday, police mentioned.

The boy, Sanjay Gowda, was a Class 7 pupil and was reportedly rehearsing for a college occasion on the event of Kannada Rajyotsava on November 1. His dad and mom had been away at work when the purported incident occurred, police mentioned.

“It appears the boy took a rope and tied it to the fan in his room whereas rehearsing. He lined his head with a woolen cap and fixed a noose round his neck. It seems that he jumped from the cot and died inside minutes,” a senior police officer mentioned. “After the dad and mom returned dwelling, they discovered their son hanging from the fan. They took him to the district hospital the place he was declared introduced useless on arrival,” the officer mentioned, looking for anonymity. A probe into the matter is underway, the officer mentioned.

“The boys would rehearse the identical play in class however by no means used a stool. Gowda was very energetic and pleasant,” Sunder Raj, whose son research in the identical faculty, mentioned.