India, April 11 -- A two-and-a-half-year-old boy drowned after allegedly falling into a swimming pool at a farmhouse in south Delhi's Mehrauli area on Wednesday evening, police said. A case has been registered against the farmhouse owner.

The child, son of Bengali Majhi, a mason from Bihar's Bhagalpur, had stepped out of his home around 6.15 pm after eating, telling his mother he was going to visit his aunt who lived nearby. He never reached her. By 7 pm, his family was searching for him. His grandmother found his clothes lying near the swimming pool of the adjoining farmhouse. When the family rushed to the pool, the boy's body was floating in the water. He was pulled out and taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead. ...