"What is the price of a human life in this city," an anguished Bombay High Court asked on Thursday while taking suo motu (on its own) cognizance of an incident where two children died after falling into an open water tank in a public garden in the metropolis.

The two minors, aged four and five years, were reported missing and found dead on April 1. Their bodies were discovered in a water tank in civic corporation-run Maharshi Karve Garden at suburban Wadala, where the kids had gone to play on Sunday (March 31). The tank did not have a proper cover or lid.