Overview
- Three sisters from Pipora Khurd village fell ill after eating baingan bharta and rotis and were declared dead at hospital, according to officials who reported the incident on Saturday.
- Family members buried the bodies before notifying authorities, prompting police to exhume the graves and order panel post‑mortem examinations.
- Investigators seized the meal, rotis and other suspicious items from the home and have sent samples to the Forensic Science Laboratory for toxicology and microbiology tests.
- Officials say 10 to 15 relatives ate the same food, which, together with questions about how an infant would have eaten the meal, complicates a simple food‑poisoning explanation.
- District health, police, revenue and forensic teams are questioning family members and collecting evidence while lab and autopsy results—likely to take days—will guide any criminal action.