BENGALURU, 11 JUNE

Six months after the death of 4-year-old Gianna Ann Jito at a preschool building in Bengaluru, there still has not been a lead in the case. The forensic reports are not yet released due to which the charge sheet has not been filed, and the case remains unsolved. When asked about why the forensic report has not been released yet, Hennur police inspector, Deepak L, told Salar News, “We have sent letters to the FSL about the forensic reports but the cases in the FSL are done based on a priority.”

“In which world does it take six months for a forensic report to be submitted? The delay in submitting the FSL report and filing the charge sheet smacks suspicion in the case,’’ said a relative of the victim who did not wish to be named.

On 22 January, Gianna from Manimala in Kerala fell from the 3rd floor of Delhi Pre-school in Challakere. She succumbed to her injuries on 25 January. The school authorities at first told the parents that she had hit her head on a wall and died but later admitted that she had fallen from the terrace and died. The Hennur police had registered an FIR following the father’s complaint.

The parents claim the CCTV footage was doctored. “A person went to the school the day after my daughter died and fiddled with the visuals. No police official is coming forward to tell us what the forensic report is all about or where the investigation is headed. Who do we approach and how do we get justice for our daughter who died for no fault of hers? Which child would venture onto the terrace of the school and jump to death?” Gianna’s father Joseph said.

Gianna’s parents Joseph and his wife Binitta Thomas used to work as software professionals in Bengaluru but they left the City and moved to their hometown, Kerala, for good after the tragedy.

Over the past six months, the distraught father of the child has been running from pillar to post in search of justice for his child. Joseph said he spoke to Hennur Police Inspector Deepak L, but whenever he reached out to police he was shunned away with the excuse that the forensic report had not come yet. —Salar News