Family's Heroin Home In Bolingbrook Caused Death: Lawsuit

BOLINGBROOK, IL - Heroin has claimed hundreds of lives across Will County over the past decade. Now, one Will County family is bringing a wrongful death lawsuit against a family in Bolingbrook in connection with their son's untimely death. The family of Josh Kasnicka filed a civil lawsuit last week at the Will County Courthouse against the family of now-convicted heroin supplier, Daksh Relwani, as well as Daksh's parents, Nirmal Relwani and Prema Relwani. Josh Kasnicka died on March 5, 2016 after using heroin inside the Relwani's home in Bolingbrook in the 1800 block of Marne Road.

Josh Kasnicka was 21.

The lawsuit notes that Josh was survived by his parents James and Kristina Kasnicka "who have suffered severe and permanent damages and pecuniary injuries including loss of service, companionship and society as a result of the premature death of Joshua Kasnicka."

The Bolingbrook Police Department investigated the death and arrested Daksh Relwani, then 22, charging him with drug-induced homicide in 2016. Last month, Daksh Relwani was sentenced at the Will County Courthouse. He drew a prison term at the Illinois Department of Corrections of four years, six months, but was given credit for 228 days of time already served awaiting trial. He is doing his prison time at the Sheridan Correctional Center.

The wrongful death lawsuit explains that Daksh lived with his parents Nirmal and Prema Relwani at their family home on Marne Drive where "Daksh Relwani used and abused illicit substances and was a user of heroin."

Furthermore, on March 5, 2016, "the Defendants Nirmal Relwani and Perma Relwani knew heroin was inside their house," the suit alleges.

Daksh Relwani is parole eligible June 24, 2019

On March 5, 2016, their son delivered heroin to Josh Kasnicka in their Bolingbrook home and he "consumed heroin in the basement of said residence," the lawsuit states. The young man from Naperville suffered a heroin overdose and died. The autopsy confirmed that Kasnicka had heroin in his blood and he died from heroin intoxication.

As for Daksh Relwani, the lawsuit states, he acted with reckless disregard for Kasnicka's safety, not only by supplying him with lethal amounts of heroin, but by having "failed to seek medical assistance for Joshua Kasnicka within a reasonable period of time after he consumed heroin."

The wrongful death case was filed by attorney David Schwartz of the Chicago law firm Kralovec, Jambois and Schwartz.

According to online news accounts in the Chicago Tribune, Josh Kasnicka was a nationally recognized skateboarder. In 2017, the Naperville Park District placed a large boulder with a plaque at Frontier Skate Park in his memory.

Mugshots of Daksh Relwani via Illinois Department of Corrections, YouTube