Missing Telangana couple found dead in car in a well in Buldhana

Buldhana: A Telangana-based couple travelling to Jalgaon for a family wedding was found dead on Saturday morning after the car they were travelling in was recovered from an abandoned well off NH-53 near Vadner Bholji in Buldhana district. All contact with the couple had abruptly stopped, causing panic among relatives since Thursday evening.

Police said Padamsingh Damu Patil, who worked with a private cement company at Sitapuram in Telangana, and his wife Namrata had left for Jalgaon in their white car on Thursday. Their last phone call to family came around 6.30pm, after which their phones switched off and remained unreachable. When the couple failed to reach the wedding venue, relatives lodged a missing complaint at Nandura police station, prompting police to launch a search operation.


On Friday, police teams scanned the Nandura-Malkapur route, checked CCTV footage, and analysed phone records. The couple's car was last seen crossing the Taroda Toll Plaza in Balapur (Akola district), and their phone location was traced near Vadner Bholji, where the trail abruptly ended.

The breakthrough came early Saturday, when villagers spotted the vehicle submerged in an abandoned well covered in bushes. Police used a crane to pull out the car, inside which both bodies were found. The vehicle had plunged deep into the well, raising questions on how it veered so far off NH-53.

Investigators have flagged several circumstances: no reported accident along the highway, unusual tyre marks near the well, both phones going off immediately after the last call, and the area's history of criminal activity. Police say they are probing all possible angles, including foul play.

"Prima facie, the vehicle seems to have gone out of control and fallen into the well. But the cause of death will be confirmed only after the autopsy," Buldhana SP Nilesh Tambe told reporters. He added that CCTV footage along the route has been seized, CDRs examined, and forensic experts roped in to study the car and site.

Meanwhile, the family, who had been running an online campaign to trace the couple, suspects murder and has demanded a thorough investigation.



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