Overview
- The crash in Gawla village near Pithampur on Tuesday came when the support vehicle for a tubewell boring rig was started and reversed over workers who had fallen asleep beneath it.
- Police identified the dead as Ramcharan, 56, Bhanu Pratap, 19, and Arvind, 22, all migrant labourers from Chhattisgarh.
- Officers seized the vehicle, registered a case after a complaint, arrested the driver identified in local reports as Gelu Swami, and sent the bodies for post-mortems at the Government Community Health Center in Pithampur.
- Investigators say early findings point to driver negligence for failing to check under or behind the vehicle before moving it.
- Agency reports name the farm owners as Subhash Chauhan and Rudan Singh Solanki, and officials say the probe will examine site safety practices and the lack of safe sleeping space for crews.