MP: Rescue fails; Three-year-old Prince retrieved dead from borewell
Damoh, Feb 27: A five-hour rescue operation failed to retrieve alive a three-year-old boy, who had fallen into over 30-feet deep dry borewell at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district on Sunday noon, an official said.
This is the second such incident in Madhya Pradesh in the last four days.
"The boy, identified as Prince Athya, fell into the borewell in Barkhera Bes village shortly after Sunday noon. He was pulled out at around 6.30 pm after a five-hour rescue operation carried out by a Special Disaster Response Force (SDRF) team and other rescuers," Damoh district collector S Krishna Chaitanya told reporters.
Officials had earlier said that the boy's name was Priyansh.
"After pulling him out, the boy was rushed to the primary health centre (PHC) at Patera where he was declared dead by doctors after the medical examination," Block Medical Officer (BMO) Ashok Baronia said.
He said the boy died of asphyxiation around two hours before he was brought out of the borewell.
The boy fell into the over 30-feet-deep uncovered borewell in Barkhera Bes village, about 45 km from the Damoh district headquarters, while playing, a police official said.
"The borewell was dug by his father Dharmendra Athya at their farm," Patera police station in-charge Shyam Bihari Mishra said.
He remained stuck at a depth of 15-17 feet in this dry borewell, the officer said.
After being alerted, a team of rescuers and police and health officials reached the spot and launched the operation, he said.
On Thursday, a three-year-old boy fell into an over 200-feet deep borewell in Badarchhad village in the Umaria district of MP.
He was pulled out on Friday after more than 16 hours but was declared dead by doctors, an official had said.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
