On Saturday, police officers investigating the Bhandara triple rape-murder, made a slight headway in the case on Saturday after they were informed that the Diatom test conducted on the three siblings, had returned positive results.

The local police had sent bone samples of the three girls who were raped, murdered and their bodies thrown into a well, for a Diatom test.

MiDDAY, in its report on February 28, ‘Will truth be buried under botched forensic investigation?’ had mentioned how the doctors at Bhandara General hospital, instead of sending dry bones, had put the specimens in a jar containing a solution of sodium chloride. The samples were returned to the police on the ground they were not preserved properly.”

The three bodies were found floating in this well on February 16, at a villager’s farm, near National Highway 6 in Bhandara