{
  "id": 10098725,
  "title": "Bombay HC Rejects Plea For Fresh Probe Into 2018 Drowning Death Of 15-Year-Old Boy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/bombay-hc-rejects-plea-for-fresh-probe-into-2018-drowning-death-of-15",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-26T23:48:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/bombay-hc-rejects-plea-for-fresh-probe-into-2018-drowning-death-of-15-year-old-boy"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Mumbai, September 26, 2026: The Bombay High Court has rejected a plea for a new investigation into the 2018 drowning death of a 15-year-old boy, whose visually impaired parents suspected foul play. A bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Kamal Khata dismissed the petition on September 22, stating that the evidence supported the police conclusion that the boy, Harshad, accidentally drowned. The parents, who are both 100% visually impaired, had gone to a friend's house on September 2, 2018, but did not return. They filed an FIR for kidnapping on September 3, and police informed them on September 6 that Harshad had drowned. The parents questioned the conclusion, citing discrepancies in the clothes found on the body and a neighbor's earlier threat to their family, which was not recorded. They sought a fresh probe after their representations to police and other authorities yielded no response. The police conducted a thorough investigation, including interviews with the parents and local residents. The investigation indicated that Harshad went to a nearby water body for a swim, and the post-mortem report found no injuries, recording the cause of death as \"drowning.\" The court noted that the Sub-Divisional Magistrate had accepted the case as an \"accidental death due to drowning.\" The bench stated that while the parents' suspicions were understandable, there was no evidence to support foul play, and no material indicated homicidal death or reasons to doubt the police investigation.",
  "summary": "Mumbai, September 26, 2026: The Bombay High Court has refused to transfer the investigation into the 2018 death of a 15-year-old boy, whose two visually impaired parents had suspected foul play and sought a fresh probe, holding that the material on record supported the police conclusion that he had accidentally drowned. A bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Kamal Khata, on September 22, dismissed…",
  "key_points": [
    "Parents, both visually impaired, suspected foul play but no evidence found to support it.",
    "Police investigation concluded Harshad accidentally drowned, consistent with post-mortem report."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}