Search for 'missing' 12-yr-old boy ends

The Fire and Emergency Services has suspended the search for 12-year-old Yeshwanth Achari who was swept away at a sewage treatment plant in Sanjay Nagar on August 25.

“We have stopped searching for the boy,” said Hampagol, Technical Director of Fire and Emergency Services. As almost five days were over, there was little chance of tracing him, the officer said.  

Nearly 20 people sweated out for five days to trace the boy and on Thursday, 15 personnel of the Fire and Emergency Services went up to Balagere, down the canal in three boats, but could not find the boy. A diver said: “We suspect that if he had fallen in the drain, he may not be alive.”

The boy left for the sewage treatment plant on Aug 25 telling his mother that he would be back in 10 minutes. He fell into the plant and was washed away.

This incident has come as a stark reminder of four-year-old Abhishek, who too was swept away on June 1, 2009 on a rainy day.

The boy was walking on the footpath above a stormwater drain and was washed away as soon as he put his foot in a hole. For nearly seven days, the BBMP along with a team of army personnel tried tracing him but in vain.

It cost the then BBMP commissioner Dr S Subramanya his post.