A new water safety scare has surfaced in Mahavir Nagar, Indore, barely six months after contaminated water consumption led to multiple deaths in Bhagirathpura.

Sewage reportedly seeped into the only operational borewell serving Mahavir Nagar in Ward 16 of Indore’s Bangarda area. Around 20 people received medical treatment for severe abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea, and a child whose condition deteriorated was taken by her family to a hospital in Gujarat. Residents said foul-smelling, discoloured tap water had arrived for several days and blamed municipal authorities for failing to monitor water quality. Health department, Indore Municipal Corporation and local NGO teams were deployed in the colony.

Residents of Mahavir Nagar reported vomiting and diarrhoea on Tuesday, alleging sewage had contaminated drinking water supplied by a government tubewell. The administration halted supply from the old tubewell as a precaution. Indore Municipal Corporation regional officer Vinod Agarwal said senior officials inspected the area in Ward 16 after complaints of possible contamination. The incident occurred around six months after contaminated water in Bhagirathpura led to multiple deaths.