Don Bosco ignored inspector’s advice
School should not have asbestos roofed structure as a government order had notified about the same
Chennai: Three days after a class IX student of Don Bosco School, Egmore, fell to his death from atop an asbestos-roofed structure near the terrace, police sources said that it seems to have been a case of negligence on the part of the school management.
The school should not have asbestos roofed structure at all as a government order in the wake of the Kumbakonam school fire tragedy in 2004 had notified that. An Inspection was carried out by an inspector of matriculation schools conducted at Don Bosco School after the incident. The inspector will also submit a report,” sources said. We are now probing the possibility of negligence by school authorities, the police added.
Fourteen -year-old Aadith Kumar had died after he fell from the third floor of the school building on Thursday evening. He slipped from the top of the asbestos roof after school hours last Thursday. He had gone to the terrace with two of his friends to play and later climbed on to the asbestos roof and slipped and fell to the ground.
He died in a private hospital.The police believe that if the school management had taken enough precautionary measures the fatal mishap could have been averted. An official enquiry is still on into the death.