Overview
- Rescuers pulled Bhanu, a nine- to ten-year-old boy, from roughly 40–55 feet below ground after nearly five hours of work on Monday night.
- State and national disaster teams, local police and villagers used borewell cameras, oxygen and water lines, three JCB excavators and an improvised rope-loop technique to secure and lift the child.
- An NDRF technical expert, Sachin Chaudhary, reached the site around 9:30 p.m. and coordinated technical steps that rescuers say sped the extraction.
- Villagers said the boy fell when a stone placed over the abandoned shaft shifted while he chased a cut kite; he was conscious, speaking at the scene and taken for precautionary checks at Alwar District Hospital.
- Officials and coverage pointed to a wider safety problem, citing NDRF data on past borewell rescues, the Supreme Court’s 2010 capping guidance and calls for stronger sealing and enforcement to prevent further child entrapments.