A 25-year-old college student drowned while learning swimming in a well with the help of a rope in Tilakhedi village under Khajuri road police station on Friday.
The deceased refused to return from inside the well when friends asked him to return for home.
A BA student identified as Abhishek Verma drowned in a well in village Tilakhedi under Khajuri Road police station area of Bhopal. He had lowered himself into the well with the help of a rope to learn to swim and when friends asked him to go home, he told that today only after learning swimming, he will go home. On this the friends left him and went home.
Police said that Abhishek Verma resident of Tila Khedi, was a student of BA final year. His father is a farmer.
The father told the police that on Friday afternoon, Abhishek was swimming with friends in a well located near Muktidham in the village. After swimming in the water for a while, his friends returned home saying that they had to participate in the immersion procession of Ganesha. Abhishek also came out of the well. He even came with friends till near the gate of Muktidham, but returned again.
He told friends that today he will go only after learning to swim. Around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, someone from the village saw Abhishek's clothes on the ridge of the well and informed the villagers. The villagers kept searching the well, but could not find it. Eventually the police had to call the SDRF. After four hours of effort, Abhishek's body was fished out from deep water.