British toddler drowns in India as police watch

A British toddler has drowned in India, as police units argued over who should save her, delaying the rescue by an hour-and-a-half. Eighteen-month old Manvi Reddy plunged into the Musi river, in Hyderabad, after slipping out of the arms of father, Dr Megha Reddy, an anaesthetist from Wolverhampton. According to local reports, whilst Manvi was drowning, the Uppal and LB Nagar police argued over whose jurisdiction the tragedy was happening in, and neither would go and save the toddler. Dr Reddy, who on holiday with his family, had taken his 18 month old daughter Manvi, and her brothers aged 10 and five to see the swollen river. Deputy Police Commissioner Ravi Ravi Sherma claimed Reddy let Manvi stand on a parapet wall whilst holding her hands. Reddy said, “I was holding Manvi when she suddenly moved and slipped from my arms”. India’s police have repeatedly faced allegations of laziness, and blame-passing, along with a string of currption claims including accepting bribes to thwart the course of justice.