A two-year-old girl died after allegedly consuming a chemical used to test gold at a jewellery store in Chintal, Jeedimetla, prompting her family to protest outside the establishment and allege negligence by its management.
The child, identified as Misha, had accompanied her parents, Gopikrishna and Janaki, to the store while they were shopping for gold for a festival. According to the police and the family, the incident occurred three days before the report was published, while the child was playing inside the premises as her parents looked at jewellery.
Misha allegedly consumed a chemical used in the gold-testing process. Her parents took her to a nearby hospital for treatment, but her condition deteriorated and she died while undergoing treatment on Friday, the report said.
The incident has placed attention on how potentially hazardous substances used in routine retail and commercial activities are stored and handled in customer-facing premises. In this case, the chemical was reportedly being used for testing gold inside a jewellery store visited by families, including young children. The available report does not specify the container, the location where it was kept, or the safety procedures followed at the establishment.
After the child’s death, her parents and relatives staged a protest outside the jewellery store. They held the management responsible and alleged that negligence had contributed to the incident. These allegations have not been independently established in the supplied report, and the store management’s response was not included.
The case also highlights the difficulty of separating customer areas from work processes in small and medium-sized commercial premises. Jewellery stores commonly combine sales activity with testing, repair or other back-end operations, but the report does not establish whether the chemical was left accessible to customers or how the child came into contact with it.
The police and the family are the sources cited in the report’s account of the incident. The supplied information does not detail whether a formal case has been registered, whether the substance has been identified by investigators, or whether any regulatory or forensic examination has been completed.
The immediate sequence reported by the family is that the child consumed the chemical inside the store, was taken to hospital, and later died during treatment. Any determination of responsibility will depend on the findings of the authorities investigating the incident and on the store management’s response.
