Mankhurd locals are mourning the loss of a six-year-old boy who drowned in a water-filled nine-foot-deep pit. The Vashi police have filed a FIR against the supervisor responsible for the pit’s maintenance.

While the blame game is on, with the pit/pothole dug for infra, we need to go beyond who dug that pit, to the fact that allegedly there were no safety rails, guards, security personnel, or cordons around that pit stopping people/children from going close to it and then, slipping into it. Some months ago, there were reports about a child slipping into an open tank in a garden and drowning.