Overview

• The collapse occurred around 7 p.m. on June 17 as workers built a cement-concrete wall around a 40-foot-deep well in Juna Gadgadiya village, Ratlam district
• Vikram Singh, 43, and Amar Singh, 32, both residents of Kelukheda village in Tal tehsil, were buried under soil loosened by persistent rainfall
• Police, local authorities and the State Disaster Emergency Response Force faced delays due to wet and unstable soil before deploying heavy machinery to recover the victims at 1:40 a.m.
• A negligence case under Section 106(1) BNS has been filed against contractor Dashrath Gurjar, with officials citing very poor construction quality
• Similar rain-triggered collapses at construction sites in Dewas and Guna underscore recurring safety lapses across Madhya Pradesh