Siddarth Sethia
Another youth who was severely injured from a firecracker accident during a Ganesha idol immersion procession near Doddaballapura Town on the outskirts of Bengaluru on August 29,succumbed on Wednesday , taking the death toll to two.
The deceased has been identified as Yogesh,15,who was among the six people including a police constable injured.
Muni alias Dhanush,15,was killed on the day of the accident.
According to the police,Yogesh,who was rushed to a private hospital and later shifted to Victoria hospital burns ward succumbed .
A multi-shot cracker box,which was kept on a forklift carrying the Ganesha idol,was ignited due to a heated silencer and hit the members of the crowd.
The Doddaballapura Town police arrested Chandrakumar,Maruthi,Kishore and Manjunath,who organised the procession,and booked them under Section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 125A (act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The Bengaluru Rural Deputy Commissioner (DC) AB Basavaraj on Saturday issued an order banning the bursting of firecrackers in the district during the Ganesha idol installation and immersion processions and any other political and religious programmes where large gatherings take place henceforth.
