Two 12-year-old boys, Abhishek Suresh Kannol and Ajay Bhimashankar Nelogi, were close friends who were always found playing together in their neighbourhood. They went out to play as usual on Saturday but did not come home. Their parents went looking for them in all the places that the children could go but in vain. They approached the nearby police station and lodged a missing complaint. The police who promptly acted on the complaint also launched a search operation only to find the bodies of the two boys in a water-filled pit under an overhead tank being constructed by the construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Sunday.
Kalaburagi City Municipal Corporation and the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) officials expressed deep regret over the incident and promised a compensation of ₹10 lakh each to the families of the deceased children apart from additional compensation from the government and criminal procedure against L&T.
As on Tuesday, no compensation has been paid to the families of the deceased children, either from the government or from L&T. However, a case was registered against L&T under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code which provides for punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
