Betul: Following the recovery of the lifeless body of 8-year-old Tanmay Sahu, who fell in a borewell on December 6, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed deep condolences to the family and assured financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh. Sahu's body was recovered by the joint effort of the SDRF and NDRF teams around 5 am on Saturday and sent to the district hospital here for postmortem. His body was then handed over to the family, who performed the last rites at Tapti Ghat in Mandavi village of the district the same day.
On receiving the news of Tanmay's death, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, "Tanmay's family should not consider themselves alone in this hour of grief, I and the entire state are with the family." He expressed grief and prayed to God to grant peace to the departed soul and strength to the family to bear the loss. He declared compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the family from the state government fund.
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State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) commandant S R Azmi, who was involved in the rescue operation, said that the child was rescued on Saturday morning after 84 hours of tireless efforts by the administration. According to officials, Tanmay had stopped responding a day after falling into the borewell. Though the administration was continuously supplying oxygen, the child was very young and had not eaten anything in the past four days, making it difficult for the child to fight for life for so long.
Azmi added, "Despite installing modern-technology machines, Tanmay remained inaccessible. Frequent rockfalls and the presence of solid blocks of rocks aggravated the problems faced in digging a ramp." Tanmay had suffered serious injuries in his chest and his ribs were found broken due to the fall. He was stuck at 55 feet of a 400-foot deep borewell and had stopped responding by Thursday evening.
