Pulled out of borewell after 16-hour operation, three-year-old boy declared dead
Umaria (PTI): A three-year-old boy, who had fallen into an over 200-feet deep borewell at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district, was pulled out after more than 16 hours of efforts, but was declared dead by doctors, an official said on Friday.
The child, Gaurav Dubey, was brought out of the borewell around 4 am on Friday by a team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from Varanasi, the agency's deputy commandant Dinesh told reporters.
After being pulled out, the boy was rushed to a primary health centre (PHC) nearby, where he was declared brought dead. According to the doctors at the facility, the child died of asphyxiation some eight hours before he was brought out of the borewell.
Gaurav had slipped into the uncovered borewell at Badarchhad village, approximately 75 kms from the district headquarters, around noon on Thursday, officials said.
He was playing at his uncle's farm when the incident happened, they added. As part of the rescue efforts, oxygen was pumped into the borewell by the authorities to help the child breathe, they said.
Besides the NDRF, the State Disaster Response Force from Jabalpur was also part of the rescue operation.
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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.
