An LKG student of a private school sustaining injuries after falling out of a moving school bus through its emergency door at Edathala on Thursday evening has sent shock waves among parents. A similar incident had been reported from Pallikkara, another town in the suburbs, a month ago.
This has in turn prompted the Commission for Protection of Child Rights to register a suo motu case, while District Collector Renu Raj has sought a report from the police and the Deputy Director of Education based on reports that the bus crew did not provide adequate aftercare to the child.
Both the students were lucky and escaped with injuries since the buses were moving at relatively low speed, while timely intervention of people of the two localities in warning other motorists helped avert a tragedy. A CCTV footage of the Edathala incident, from a shop in the area, has gone viral.
