Overview
- The six family members, including two children, were transferred from Ghatal Sub-divisional Hospital to Kolkata’s SSKM Hospital and are in critical condition.
- Police say the meal in Ratneshwarbati, under Manoharpur I Gram Panchayat in Ghatal, was prepared on November 23 using acid believed to have been mistaken for water.
- Preliminary accounts indicate the acid was kept in the household because a family member works with copper and silver.
- Local health officer Panchanan Mandal and administrative officials visited the home as the inquiry began.
- Authorities have not ruled out deliberate poisoning and are investigating how the corrosive entered the cooking vessels.