MP: Two VIT students drown in Sehore waterfall

The boys went missing on Sunday while taking bath in the Bhairukho Waterfall and Shankar Kund in the Kheoni Wildlife Sanctuary.

Published on: Jul 28, 2025, 15:47:16 IST

By Shruti Tomar

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Two students of the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore drowned at a waterfall, the police said on Monday.

The deceased have been identified as 20-year-olds Sanmukh Rao and Hemant Rao, both residents of Hyderabad and second year students of engineering. The boys went missing on Sunday while taking bath in the Bhairukho Waterfall and Shankar Kund in the Kheoni Wildlife Sanctuary. The police recovered their bodies on Monday.

“Five VIT students had gone to Bhairukho Waterfall and Shankar Kund located in the Kheoni Wildlife Sanctuary. Three students, one from Gujarat and two from Hyderabad, noticed that Sanmukh and Hemant were going deep into the water. Then they went missing while bathing around 5pm,” Sehore superintendent of police Deepak Shukla said.

The police and State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) rushed to the spot as soon as the other students informed them. Due to heavy rainfall in the region, the rescue operation was stalled on Sunday night and resumed the next morning. The bodies were recovered from Shankar Kund in Dewas district on Monday morning, the SP said.

The bodies have been sent for the postmortem and the families have been informed.

The district administration appealed to citizens to not go to rivers, lakes, ponds, waterfalls and other places where there is waterlogging during the rainy season and also prevent their family members and acquaintances from going to such places. As of now, seven people have lost their lives due to drowning in Sehore in the past one month.

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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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