Varanasi: A 20-day-old girl died after falling unconscious while an idol procession accompanied by loud DJ music was passing by her house in Mudiyari village under Maniyar police station in Ballia district on Friday evening. The exact cause of death is yet to be ascertained.Ballia CO (Bansdih) Jayshankar Mishra said on Saturday that, acting on a complaint lodged by the girl’s uncle, Ramesh Gond, Maniyar police sent the body for postmortem and seized the DJ equipment. Police are awaiting the postmortem report before initiating any action.In his complaint, Gond stated that some people were passing by his house with an idol procession while playing loud music on a DJ system. A few minutes later, his sister alerted the family that her daughter had stopped crying and moving. The baby was rushed to hospital, where doctors declared her dead, officials said.
