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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Conspiracy afoot to 'tarnish' image of Dharmasthala: Deputy CM DK Shivakumar
Bengaluru, Aug 14 (PTI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday said there was a “conspiracy” to tarnish the image of Dharmasthala.
His comments come amid an ongoing investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into serious allegations of mass burials in the revered temple town in Dakshina Kannada district.
“A conspiracy is being hatched to destroy hundreds of years of legacy. It is not correct to tarnish someone just like that. It has all happened due to one complainant,” he said.
Noting that some Congress MLAs have called for action against those involved in the slander campaign at the legislature party meeting, he said, “ I have told them that action must be taken against those who are indulging in a slander campaign. The CM has also said that action must be taken against such people.”
“I have information on this case. Religious feelings should not be hurt in any manner. Culprits must be punished,” he told reporters, according to a release from his office.
Responding to a question, Shivakumar said the Congress party will not allow the image of any religious place to be tarnished.
“We see everyone equally when it comes to religion,” he added.
The SIT, formed by the state government, is probing claims of mass murder, rape, and mass burials in Dharmasthala over the past two decades.
The complainant, a former sanitation worker whose identity has not been revealed, alleged that between 1995 and 2014 he was forced to handle bodies—including women and minors—and that some showed signs of sexual assault. He has given a statement before a magistrate.
As part of the probe, the SIT has been conducting exhumations at multiple locations identified by the complainant-witness in the forested areas along the banks of the Netravathi River in Dharmasthala, where some skeletal remains have been found at two sites so far.
