Five-year-old boy falls 40 feet from SC building

A five-year-old boy fell a whopping 40-feet height from the Supreme Court building and miraculously survived the fall. According to the details provided, the boy, identified as Hussain, had come to the court with his father Muhammad Nawaz for a custody case and he fell through a missing windowpane and hit the marble floor.

Because of falling from such a great height and on such a hard surface, Hussain did however, suffer two leg fractures.

The incident took place on Thursday when the family was waiting for their hearing. Hussain was playing in the room with the missing window with his three-year-old sister Haleema, when he fell through it.

The boy’s mother was also in the courtroom at the time of the incident and she rushed to the hospital as soon as she heard about it.

He was immediately taken to the Supreme Court dispensary, from where doctors referred him to PIMS hospital. Hussain was still in the hospital being treated for his condition till Friday evening.

The blame for the accident is being pinned on Public Works Department (PWD), which had been repeatedly asked to replace the missing window for quite some time now.

A senior official told reporters that the responsible officials of PWD have been issued a show cause notice for their negligence. More than Rs200 million was recently spent to renovate the Supreme Court building, but even then, there such a tragic incident took place. After the accident, the PWD officials immediately replaced the window.

The boy’s mother and father got married in 2010 and later they split up in 2016. The hearing for the case was adjourned till next week after the accident was reported.

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