Uttarakhand panchayat member found dead on Kheerganga river bank in Bageshwar
Tara Singh Koranga, a 48-year-old Kshetra panchayat member, was found dead on the banks of the Kheerganga river in Bageshwar, Uttarakhand.
A 48-year-old Kshetra Panchayat member named Tara Singh Koranga was discovered lifeless on the banks of the Kheerganga river in Bageshwar district of Uttarakhand on Saturday morning, according to police. Koranga, who resided in Jalekh village, held the position of a sitting Kshetra Panchayat member from the Gadera area. His family lived in the same village, yet he was known to reside alone in a house adjacent to the river.
The unfortunate incident came to light when a three-year-old girl living nearby noticed Koranga from her window. The girl alerted her mother, who then notified other neighbors. The Kapkot police station received information about the body floating in the river and promptly dispatched an SDRF (State Disaster Response Fund) team to the scene.
The team, led by sub-inspector Rajendra Singh Rawat, swiftly retrieved the body and transported it to the road before handing it over to the district police for further action. The SDRF Commandant, Arpan Yaduvanshi, informed that the body was recovered from the Kheerganga river near Kapkot block. The body was subsequently handed over to the district police for a postmortem examination.
The exact cause and circumstances surrounding Tara Singh Koranga's death will be determined following the post-mortem report and further investigation.
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