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In Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, 35-year-old Rajendra Barautia's friend fed him Rasgulla. However, as soon as he ate it, there was a massive explosion in his mouth and Rajendra died during treatment in the hospital.
According to the police, Rambhagat Singh Barautia, a friend living in his neighborhood, had given Rajendra a country-made bomb used to kill pigs, passing it off as Rasgulla.
This incident took place on the evening of Tuesday 10th November in Padaria Chhanta village of Kotwali police station area of Dindori.
Police have arrested two people in this case. These include Rambhagat, who put a bomb in Rasgulla and another person who found this bomb in the forest.
Dindori Kotwali police station in-charge Durga Prasad Nagpure told BBC News Hindi, "Both the accused have been arrested. The investigation of the case is going on."
What is the whole matter?
According to police station in-charge Durga Prasad Nagpure, on the evening of the incident, Rajendra Barautia was warming the fire with his family in the courtyard of his house. His wife, child and grandmother were also present with him.
Meanwhile, Ram Bhagat Singh, who lived in his neighbourhood, reached there. Both of them sat near the fire and started talking. According to the police, there was also joking going on between the two.
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Nagpure told that during this time, Ram Bhagat gave a small ball shaped thing to Rajendra and called it Rasgulla and asked him to taste it.
Rajendra's wife Sushila Bai told BBC News Hindi, "Ram Bhagat had asked my husband to taste Rasgulla, mentioning the festival of Diwali. As soon as he put it in his mouth and chewed it, there was a sudden explosion."
Sushila further says, "I could not understand anything. My husband's jaw was torn, his face became difficult to recognize within a second."
After this, the family took him by auto to Dindori District Hospital, where he died during treatment. The body was handed over to the family after post-mortem the next day.
Rajendra's wife Sushila Bai told in the conversation that her husband had consumed the bomb used to kill animals.
After his death, Sushila and her child are left behind in his family.
Where was the bomb given in the name of Rasgulla found?
According to the police, the second accused arrested in this case was found with explosives in the forest.
The person who found it in the forest gave it to Ram Bhagat Singh. After this, Ram Bhagat gave it to Rajendra by calling it Rasgulla. Now it is investigating from where the explosive had come in the forest and who had kept it there.
Initial investigation has not revealed any old enmity between the two arrested people and Rajendra. Police have registered a case against both of them under Section 105 of the Indian Justice Code and Sections 3 and 4 of the Explosives Act.
How dangerous is this bomb?
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Pig bombs are used to kill wild pigs in many rural areas of central India.
Such homemade explosives are mixed with food items and kept in the forest and as soon as pigs or other small creatures chew it, it explodes in the mouth and they die.
Indore-based explosives expert Sharad Sarwate told BBC News Hindi that the nature of such explosives depends on their chemical composition. The substances often used in such bombs explode due to pressure.
According to Sarwate, "Some explosive materials, which use substances like ammonium nitrate mixture and nitrate jelly, if crushed, produce gas rapidly, which creates pressure and causes explosion."
He told that such mixtures are often like gel or toothpaste and their size is similar to the crackers used in Diwali such as Sutli bombs.
Sarwate said, "Such explosives are used in places where relatively low intensity of explosion is required. To kill wild animals like a pig, small explosion is required so that the rest of its body remains useful. So as soon as this bomb is chewed or pressed, it will explode and the affected part will be badly injured."
Dindori police have collected explosive remains and other samples from the spot. According to police station in-charge Durga Prasad Nagpure, these samples will be sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory.
He said, "Investigation so far has not found that there was any quarrel or enmity between the arrested people and the deceased. The bomb is being sent forward to investigate what was inside it."
Published by Collective Newsroom for the BBC.
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