Infant dies as balcony collapses

VARANASI: In a tragic incident, Dolly, a six-month-old girl, was killed while her mother Shanti (22) sustained serious injuries when the part of a balcony collapsed in Sudamapur area under Bhelupur police station on Saturday morning.
According to reports, one Shriprakash Chaurasia, a retired employee, lives in Sudamapur while Dinesh Chaurasia resides in his neighbourhood.On Saturday morning Dinesh’s wife Shanti along with her daughter Dolly was sitting at a platform outside the house of Shriprakash.
In the meantime a monkey jumped on the dilapidated balcony of the house due to, which its parts collapsed and fell on Dolly and she died on the spot.
Seriously injured Shanti was rushed to hospital where her condition was stated to be stable. On receiving information of incident the ADM City MP Singh and SP City SK Singh reached the incident site.
Later, the Varanasi Nagar Nigam swung into action to take note of dilapidated buildings in city area, which can collapse during rainy season.
The VNN team also demolished the parts of a dilapidated building in Aurangabad area. Due to the action of VNN some owners of in old city localities like Teliabagh also engaged labourers voluntarily to demolish the parts of their buildings.
Suicide
Rahul Yadav (18), a native of Chandpur under Manduadih police station committed suicide by hanging with the ceiling of his house on Friday night.
Reports stated that his father Shyamu, former gram pradhan of Chandpur had also committed suicide last year. The motive behind committing suicide by Rahul could not become clear.