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title: "Poisoned Sweets"
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date: "2026-07-30T21:09:22+00:00"
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#  Poisoned Sweets

 Written on 01 February 2026.

The discovery of an unclaimed bag of sweets outside a Public Health Engineering (PHE) office in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara has triggered a chilling mystery that has claimed three lives and left two others hospitalised. What initially appeared to be a case of food poisoning is now being investigated as a potential targeted poisoning.

The sequence of events began on January 9, when an abandoned bag was found outside the PHE office. Inside were raw vegetables and a box of pedas garnished with cashews. When no one claimed the bag, PHE security guard Dasaru Yaduvanshi (50) took it home. He shared the sweets with Sundar Lal Kathuria (72), Sundar Lal's wife Santoshi Bai, and their granddaughter Khushboo at the family's nearby tea stall. Within hours of consuming the sweets, all those who ate them began experiencing vomiting, loose motions and a sudden and severe fall in blood pressure, and all three subsequently died.

Sources associated with the investigation said that targeted poisoning cannot be ruled out, but it remains unclear whether the victims were the intended targets. They also pointed out that the cashew-decorated pedas found in the bag do not match the type of sweets sold in any shop in Junnardeo or neighbouring areas of Chhindwara district, raising further suspicion about their origin.

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