Madhya Pradesh: Five brothers aged 3-5 years found dead in open well

Yet another shocking story emerged from Madhya Pradesh, five brothers aged between three to seven year were found dead in an open water well at a village in Sendhwa Rural area — located 400 km from state capital Bhopal.

The four of the deceased were born to one mother, and another one was their stepbrother. Noticing, five bodies in the well, villagers immediately raised an alarm called the police. After reaching to the spot, police sent all the five bodies for post-mortem.

The open well is located around 1.5 km from the house of the five boys in Chikhli village. All five boys were children of a labourer Bhatar Singh, who has two wives Sungi Bai and Sunita.

Importantly, since the incident came to light on Wednesday morning, both Bhatar Singh and first wife Sungi Bai are missing mysteriously, while second wife Sunita, owing to deep shock is not in a mental state to record her statements with the police.

“We’re waiting for autopsy findings to ascertain whether the boys have been strangulated and then dumped in the well, beaten to death before being thrown into well or some other cause of death,” Sendhwa Rural police station in-charge Dinesh Chouhan told The New Indian Express.

According to an initial probe, fathers of five deceased children Bhatar Singh worked as a labourer in adjoining Maharashtra. Police are probing all angles of the case, including the possibility of some quarrel between Bhatar Singh and his two wives being behind the ghastly episode.

A local MLA Antar Singh Arya, and minister in Shivraj Singh Chouhan government rushed to the village.

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