Pune: In a shocking incident, Pune rural police have found seven dead bodies floating on the Bhima river in Daund taluka of Pune district. According to the police, all the seven bodies belonged to a single family. Police suspect a financial crisis behind the act.
However, police are investigating the case from all angles to rule out the other possibilities.
Several bodies recovered in a week
Apparently, on January 18, police received the information about an unknown body being found on the river bank at Moje paragon village of Daund taluka. The body belonged to a woman and it was sent for post-mortem to Yavat rural hospital.
A similar tip off was received on January 20 at around 3.30 pm. This time the body belonged to a man. It was sent for post-mortem at the rural hospital. Again, on January 21 and 22 bodies of a woman and man were found in a similar way. The cause of death for all these bodies was drowning. The post-mortem was carried out at Sassoon General Hospital in Pune.
Police launched search operation after suspicion
Police officer said, “we had doubts that there might be few more bodies and thus we started the search operation with the help from Pune Mahanagar Regional Development Corporation (PMRDA) and on Tuesday we found three more bodies and those were of children.
All the bodies have been identified and were of Mohan Uttam Pawar (45), Sangita alias Shahbai Mohan Pawar (40), Rani Sham Phalware (24), Sham Pandit Phalware (28), Ritesh alias Sham Phalware (07), Chotu Sham Phalware (05) and Krishuna Shyam Phalware (03). All the deceased belonged to a single family including a couple, their daughter, son-in-law and their three children. The couple was the native of Khamgaon village of Georai taluka of Beed district while the daughter and her husband and their children were from Hatola village of Vashi taluka of Osmanabad district.
ADR filed by police
According to the police the both the families were residing at Nighoj village of Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district and were working as laborers. The post-mortem of all the bodies have confirmed that they died of drowning. A case of accidental death has been registered by the police.
Police Superintendent Ankit Goyal, DCP Zone II Anand Bhoite, Additional police superintendent, Baramati division Rahul Dhas have been investigating the case.
