Police today arrested two life guards, responsible for security at the government school pool where a 13-year-old boy drowned while learning how to swim on Friday in east Delhi's Farsh Bazar area.
Police registered a case under Section 304(A) (causing death due to negligence) against the two life guards - Bhaskar Kaushik and Jai Singh -- yesterday and they were arrested today.
Mukul Sharma, a Class-VIII student of DAV Public School in Dayanand Vihar, who had gone to Delhi government-run Babu Ram School to learn swimming along with his cousin Vikas on May 22 evening had drowned.
Mukul, the only child of his parents, lived in Delhi's Vishwas Nagar area with his family and had joined swimming classes just two days before the fateful day.
According to police, Vikas had decided to sit beside the pool seeing it crowded but Sharma went into it.
"Around 30 minutes later, other swimmers brought him out of the pool. He was rushed to GTB hospital where he was declared brought dead. He apparently died due to drowning. The body has been sent for post-mortem which would establish the exact cause of death," said a senior police official.
Vikas has also alleged that the tutor was sitting at a corner while children were playing inside the pool.
