A JCB excavator pulled Mithun’s body out of an open drain in Southeast Delhi’s Jasola village at around 1.15 pm on Tuesday. He was 15. He had slipped into that drain on Saturday morning, chasing a kite thread a few steps from his house. The body has now been shifted to AIIMS Delhi, police sources said.
Mithun’s mother Anita Devi says her son “could have been saved”. “If the police had begun the search operation on Saturday itself then maybe it wouldn’t have reached this point,” she alleged.
