Two Minor Brothers Drown in Water-filled Illegal Mine in Rajasthan
News 18Two brothers aged 13 years and nine years drowned on Tuesday after one of them slipped into a water-filled illegal mine and the other tried to save him in Astoli village of neighbouring Bundi district. The police have lodged a case of causing death by negligence under section 304 of the IPC against the illegal mine operator and mining officials of the district. Family members of the deceased siblings staged a protest at the Bundi district government hospital demanding that the illegal mine operator be charged with murder. “The two siblings had gone to graze cattle in the forest near the village on Tuesday morning when one of them accidentally slipped into the water-filled mine and drowned,” Circle Inspector at Bundi Sadar police station Sandeep Sharma said.