MP: Three Class 12 students drown in Hathinala-Bildha waterfall at Narsinghpur

A rescue operation was conducted till late night, and the bodies were recovered from the waterfall located in the forest near Bildha village on the Jabalpur-Bhopal Highway

Updated on: Aug 2, 2025, 16:13:12 IST

By Shruti Tomar

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Bhopal: Three Class 12 students drowned in the Hathinala-Bildha waterfall in Madhya Pradesh’s Narsinghpur district late Friday night.

The deceased were all residents of Jabalpur. (Representative photo)

The deceased were all residents of Jabalpur. A rescue operation was conducted till late night, and the bodies were recovered from the waterfall located in the forest near Bildha village on the Jabalpur-Bhopal Highway.

“The three students had gone to the schools. When they did not return home till late evening, the families started searching for them. Their fellow students informed them about their plan of visiting the waterfall. The family members, along with police, reached the spot and found a bike and their clothes,” superintendent of police of Narsinghpur Mrigaki Deka said.

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Their bodies were handed over to their families after a postmortem was conducted on Saturday, Deka said.

Tanmay was a student of Chavara Vidyapeeth School, while Ashwin and Akshat studied in Government Excellence School.

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“There was a tourism quiz contest in our school, in which 160 school children from the entire district participated. The students were given the day off as the staff was engaged in the programme. We had informed all the children and their parents about this on Thursday itself. The three students must have already planned to go to the waterfall,” Government Excellence School principal S. S. Patel said.

Two students of the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore drowned at a waterfall three days back.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Shruti Tomar
I have spent over a decade chronicling Madhya Pradesh’s political and social landscape, covering politics, investigative journalism, crime, human interest, and government policy, blending sharp insight with ground‑level depth. I have closely tracked three assembly elections, three Lok Sabha elections, leadership transitions in MP while exposing governance lapses, tender irregularities, and flawed policy rollouts. My reports have revealed gaps in the Cheetah project, irregularities in medical education, rigging in recruitment exams, and loopholes in policy implementation. In crime reporting, I have moved beyond FIRs to map systemic patterns — from organised crime networks and gender‑based violence to custodial accountability — balancing urgency with sensitivity. My journalism is defined by a commitment to human interest. I have profiled the marginalised Bancchda community, documented atrocities against tribal groups, and highlighted efforts to preserve their culture through heritage liquor and revival of spiritual practices. I have reported on farmers struggling with failed MSP promises, giving voice to those often reduced to statistics in policy files. Passionate about field reporting, I have reported on rampant sand mining in Chambal and Narmada, pharmaceutical companies supplying medicines under altered names, the dire condition of schools and colleges, the plight of commercial sex workers, and skewed sex ratios in specific districts. Beyond deadlines, and as HT’s state correspondent and assistant editor in Madhya Pradesh, I engage with ministers, farmers, students, and activists, believing the best policy stories begin with a single human voice. A postgraduate in Journalism and Mass Communication, I also hold a diploma in sports journalism.Read More

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