Overview
- Khushboo Kathuria, 22, died at AIIMS Nagpur on Wednesday, raising the toll to three in the Junnardeo incident.
- Seven people who ate the pedas suffered severe vomiting, diarrhoea and a rapid drop in blood pressure, according to officials.
- An unclaimed bag with vegetables and a box of pedas was found outside the PHED office on January 9; the on-duty chowkidar who tasted them died on January 11.
- A nearby tea-stall family took the remaining sweets home; 72-year-old Sunder Lal Kathuria died during treatment on January 13.
- An autopsy in one case was inconclusive, viscera and sweet samples have been sent to forensic and food-testing labs, and investigators are examining whether the poisoning was deliberate, with the lack of a post-mortem for the first victim complicating the probe.