Overview

• The incident occurred around 12:30 am Tuesday in Bachupally, Medchal district, when a 30-year-old woman entered a five-foot water sump with her sons aged eight and three.
• Neighbors alerted by a splash pulled the woman out alive and helped retrieve the children, whose bodies were sent to Gandhi Hospital for postmortem examination.
• The woman is being treated at a private hospital, with police noting her condition is stable and that she will need psychological support.
• Police registered a case under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after the husband, a brick-kiln worker named Laxman, filed a complaint.
• An inspector said preliminary inquiries point to stress over a delayed sterilization procedure due to finances and the recent deaths of the woman’s parents, while a separate Kochi case noted in earlier reports involves an FIR and a suicide note alleging harassment by a moneylender.