11-Year-Old Missing Akola Boy Found Dead In Drain | Nagpur News

Akola: The body of an 11-year-old boy, missing since March 19, was fished out from a drain inside the Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth campus on Sunday morning.The deceased has been identified as Sarvagya Nimbalkar, a resident of Azad Chowk. According to police sources, the boy had stepped out of his house around 11am on March 19 but did not return. After an extensive search yielded no results, his family lodged a missing complaint at the MIDC Police Station.IPS officer Ishani Anand stated that multiple teams were immediately deployed after the complaint was registered. “Search operations were carried out across several locations. We used dog squads, scanned CCTV footage, and even deployed drones in certain areas,” she said.The case took a grim turn on Sunday morning when locals out on a walk noticed a foul smell near a drain within the university premises. Upon inspection, they discovered a child’s body and promptly alerted the police.A police team rushed to the spot, recovered the body and sent it for postmortem. Preliminary findings indicate no visible injury marks. Police suspect that the boy may have died due to drowning, as he was reportedly fond of swimming.However, officials emphasized that all angles are being thoroughly investigated, and the exact cause of death will be determined only after the postmortem report is received.