Tushar Sahu, the twenty one-year-old nephew of Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Arun Sao, tragically drowned in the Rani Dahra waterfall, a popular tourist destination in Kabirdham district, police reported on Monday.
The incident occurred around 4 PM on Sunday when Sahu, an office-bearer of the BJP’s youth wing, was on an outing with five friends.
Kabirdham Additional Superintendent of Police, Vikas Kumar, stated that Sahu slipped into the waterfall’s pool from a 40-foot-high rock along with two friends.
While his friends managed to escape, Sahu was pulled into deeper waters.
Upon receiving the distress call, a police team was dispatched to the site, initiating a search operation. However, due to the onset of darkness, the rescue efforts were suspended for the night.
Early Monday morning, around 6:30 AM, divers located Sahu’s body trapped under a rock and retrieved it from the water.
Preliminary investigations suggest that the cause of death was drowning, but further inquiries are ongoing following the registration of a case. Witnesses corroborated the account of Sahu’s fall and subsequent struggle in the water.
Sahu, a resident of Bemetara town in the neighbouring Bemetara district, held the position of general secretary for the Bemetara urban unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP.
This incident marks the 15th drowning at the Rani Dahra waterfall in the past five years, highlighting a concerning pattern of accidents at the location.
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai expressed his condolences on the platform ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), stating, “Received the heart-wrenching news of the drowning of Tushar Sahu, nephew of Deputy CM Arun Sao ji, in Rani Dahra waterfall of Kawardha. I am deeply pained. I pray for the departed soul and the bereaved family.”
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