<p>An eight-year-old boy from suburban Asalfa-Ghatkopar in Mumbai was drowned in the swimming pool of a resort in Bhiwandi this afternoon, the Thane police said here tonight.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Thane District rural police told PTI that the boy Nikhil S Pathak, had come to the house of his uncle Vijay Shukla at Bhiwandi.<br /><br />The family went for a picnic to the Sangrila resort and Shukla had asked the boy to be seated near others and not enter the swimming pool.<br /><br />However, under the pretext of going to the toilet, the boy went to the swimming pool and drowned to death, the police said.<br /><br />The Bhiwandi police sent the body for postmortem and registered a case of accidental death, the police said.</p>
<p>An eight-year-old boy from suburban Asalfa-Ghatkopar in Mumbai was drowned in the swimming pool of a resort in Bhiwandi this afternoon, the Thane police said here tonight.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Thane District rural police told PTI that the boy Nikhil S Pathak, had come to the house of his uncle Vijay Shukla at Bhiwandi.<br /><br />The family went for a picnic to the Sangrila resort and Shukla had asked the boy to be seated near others and not enter the swimming pool.<br /><br />However, under the pretext of going to the toilet, the boy went to the swimming pool and drowned to death, the police said.<br /><br />The Bhiwandi police sent the body for postmortem and registered a case of accidental death, the police said.</p>