The iron railing enclosing the front-orchard of a four-story building at Nurabad Colony on Eskaton Garden Road collapsed on one and a half years old Sumaiya Akter Shova at 8:00am while she was waiting beside the railing for her grandmother, sweeper of the colony. Her grandmother went to buy Shova banana and bread as her breakfast.

Like other days, Saleha Begum, grandmother of Shova, went to work with Shova in the early morning.

"As I saw the railing falling down on Shova, I ran madly to rescue her but in vain," said a wailing Saleha Begum.

Shova died on her way to Dhaka Medical College. She was buried at Azimpur graveyard in the afternoon.

"Following assurance by the colony authorities that they will be looking into the incident, we did not file any case and buried the body without conducting any autopsy," said Abdul Khaleque, father of Shova.

The rickety iron fence of the orchard had been unsteady for the last several years with no more initiatives from the house owner to fix or remove the railing. The railing was years' old while it was kept upright with the help of several pillars made up weakly. The broken down railing, however, vanished from the scene soon after the death of Shova.

Police sources said that an unnatural death (UD) case under section no 174 could be filed regarding such types of incidents. No punishment could be awarded in the case as it is considered as an accident. Had the autopsy report suggested something fishy, the UD case might have been turned into a murder case, police sources added.