`Doctor’ game turns dangerous for kids

Agarwal, who was at his dairy products shop on Sunday when the incident took place, rushed to the house and took the children to a private hospital. They came to on being treated.

The children, part of a joint family, decided to play on the second floor of their three-storeyed house in the Wadi area, away from other family members who keep to the first floor. The only adult on the second floor was the children’s grandmother and she was asleep at the time.

“They were just playing and the little kids did not realise that they were actually taking the sleeping pills,” recollects Agarwal.

Things would have taken a more serious turn if Gunjan had delayed informing her mother downstairs about what had happened. Agarwal said, “Thank goodness she realised something was wrong.”

The panicked mother rushed to the second floor, where she was shown the bottle from which the medicine had been taken out. “She called me up at my shop and I immediately rushed home but by this time the kids had started developing signs of unconsciousness. We took them to a private hospital where the doctors administered timely treatment and the kids were saved,” he says.