Grills could havesaved the baby

BANGALORE: The window of the ninth floor of the C Block of Adarsha Rhythm Apartment in Panduranganagar from which the one-and-ahalf- year-old Arman Kashyap fell did not have grills. The grills could have averted the tragedy. A security guard of the apartment said that the grills were in place for the first three floors. “The grills were put to avoid thefts. To the higher floors, there are no grills as nobody would climb till that height,” he said.Even the police investigation says that the residents of the apartment were against putting the grills.“The grills were not put in all windows based on demand of the residents, it is said.Some of them were reluctant to buy flats if there are grills.So the management had not put grills,” the police added.J P Nagar police inspector Umesh said that the police had already circulated handbills to resident associations of various apartments to take care of safety issues. “ P Nagar has more number of apartments compared to other ares of the city. Though we have apprised the residents of such incidents, people sometime neglect them forgetting its consequences,” he said.Second incidentThis is not the first such incident in the Adarsha Rhythm Apartment. In February, earlier this year, Tanya Iyer (15), who had dropped out of tenth class in Kumaran’s High School, had ended her life by jumping from the seventh floor of the apartment.Reportedly, depression was the reason behind Tanya taking the extreme step.  RECENT INCIDENTSJuly 23, 2011: Kashinath, a 10-year-old boy, who was flying kite on the fifth floor of an under-construction building at Jayanagar second block, accidentally fell in the lift shaft and died.April 12, 2011: Nayana, an one-year old girl, was playing with her six-year-old brother in the balcony of their second floor house in Srinivasanagar Fourth Cross.The glass which she had held slipped and Nayana, while trying to pick the glass, accidentally fell through the grills and fell to her death.November, 2010: Allan Jan Vengen Barraza (13) died after falling from a sevenstorey aparment on Cunningham Road while playing.