Youth drowned at Baroda Ghat in Kharkai river in Jamshedpur

• The body of an unidentified 28-year-old youth was discovered at Baroda Ghat in the Kharkai River
• The police recovered the body and kept it near the ghat for identification before transferring it to the MGM medical college mortuary for postmortem examination
• The police suspect that the youth may have drowned while crossing a slippery cemented path that serves as a shortcut route from Adityapur to Bagbera

The body of a 28-year-old youth was found lying at Baroda Ghat in the Kharkai River along the Bagbera thana area on Saturday morning.

The deceased whose identity is yet to be established had put on jeans pants and a T-shirt, suggesting that the youth might have drowned in the river ghat due to a reason other than taking a bath.

Having come to know about the body, a police party arrived at the scene and recovered it.  The police kept the body near the Baroda Ghat for more than an hour to get it identified, but later shifted it to MGM medical college mortuary for postmortem, though it is still unidentified.

OC, Bagbera thana Koisalendra Jha first claimed that the youth might have drowned in the river-ghat while taking a bath, but on being queried he said might have drowned while crossing a cemented path linking Adityapur to Bagbera.

“There is a cemented path linking Adityapur to Bagbera along the Baroda Ghat. Though it is not a proper pathway, several people do use it as a shortcut way. Following a spell of monsoon rains, the cemented pathway has become slippery. The youth might have slipped into the river ghat while negotiating the slippery path and drowned,” Jha said while talking to the media.

The OC pointed out that drowning deaths at this point of the Baroda Ghat is a regular phenomenon, adding that the people continue to use the shortcut route risking their lives.