India, Oct. 31 -- Nearly five months after a 14-year-old Kho Kho player died of electrocution near his school playground in Kamothe, police registered a case against his coach and the school principal, following a complaint by the boy's father alleging that he had been asked to install a halogen light despite being a minor.

The deceased, Dadasaheb Edke, was playing Kho Kho near Dattusheth Patil Vidyalaya in Sector 9, Kamothe, on May 30 when he allegedly came into contact with a halogen bulb installed on a tree.

He suffered an electric shock and collapsed. He was taken to MGM Hospital in Kamothe, where doctors declared him dead at around 7.32pm.

In his complaint, the boy's father, Dattatray, 42, alleged that Kho Kho coach Sanket Shivaji...