Student Undergoes Second Skin Graft Surgery After Electric Shock at Hyderabad School

Hyderabad: Sixteen-year-old Hassan Khan, an Intermediate first year student, who sustained third degree burns when he suffered an electric shock at the Meridian High School on June 23, underwent his second skin graft surgery at a hospital here on Friday.

The incident occurred on his first day in college, when he came in contact with a live wire from an unfenced transformer that is located behind the school building.

His father Farooq Khan said that Hassan’s friends raised an alarm when they did not find him at lunch time.

It later transpired that a painter had seen Hassan Khan collapse after getting electrocuted. He rushed with the student to the school management, police sources said.

Farooq Khan, a businessman, said he was later informed that his son had been admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital and was undergoing treatment.

“Vice-principal Rahat along with staff member Davender visited the hospital and spoke to the doctors on June 27 morning. After that no one has turned up,” Farooq Khan said. “One of my friends told us that the school management had played a cheap trick on us.”

Farooq Khan said that when V-P Rahat told the family that it was not management’s responsibility, he approached the police to seek justice.

Banjara Hills sub-inspector Praveen Reddy, investigation office in the case, said that he had inspected the transformer and found it unfenced and that there were no caution boards. “No one was there to monitor or warn the kids,” he said and added that police were investigating why Hassan had landed up near the transformer.

Praveen Reddy said the student had suffered third degree burns and a head injury. Police had booked a case of causing injury by negligence against the school management.

When contacted, the school incharge refused to speak about the incident.