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A 17-year-old labourer who ‘fell’ into a 140-foot borewell successful a colony successful Bhuj taluka of Gujarat couldn't beryllium saved contempt an eight-hour rescue operation, which ended aboriginal Sunday (December 7, 2025), constabulary said, adding that helium was declared dormant astatine a hospital.
Police fishy it could beryllium a termination triggered by an statement betwixt the unfortunate and his begetter implicit an costly mobile phone.
The victim, Rustom Sheikh, primitively from Jharkhand, reportedly fell into the 1.5 feet-wide borewell astatine a farmhouse successful Kukma colony connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) evening.
Deputy Superintendent of Police M.J. Christian said constabulary received the accusation astir the incidental astatine 6.30 p.m. connected Saturday (December 6, 2025) and launched a rescue cognition with borewell operators and different agencies.
"When constabulary arrived astatine the spot, the unfortunate was screaming from wrong the borewell. Oxygen proviso was arranged promptly,' the DySP said, adding that Sheikh was pulled retired aft astir 8 hours of efforts astatine astir 3 a.m. connected Sunday (December 7, 2025).
"He was rushed to GK General Hospital, wherever doctors declared him dead," constabulary said.
Mr. Christian said the superior probe suggests that Sheikh jumped into the borewell aft an statement with his begetter implicit renting an costly mobile phone.
He allegedly threw distant the telephone aft a heated speech and jumped into the borewell, helium added.
"We person registered a lawsuit of accidental death, though prima facie it appears to beryllium suicide. The borewell is 2.5 feet supra crushed and was covered with a stone. The unfortunate allegedly removed the chromatic and jumped. A elaborate probe is underway," Mr. Christian added.
Sheikh's brother, Mikhail (16), was moving with him astatine the aforesaid farmhouse. He has taken the assemblage to Jharkhand aft the post-mortem.
