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Mother's video posted a day before hill deaths
NDTV··23 Aug
On 20 August 2026, Sangita Chandgude posted a one-minute YouTube video on relationships, saying there is no point staying where love is not valued. The next day she, her husband Murlidhar, 48, and their son Kunal, 18, died after falling from Kohdya Dongar in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. Police linked the hill visit to a dispute over phone EMIs.
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What It Means For You
- If you are in Tisgaon or Zalta Phata, Friday's file is an accidental-death inquiry at Waluj MIDC, not a criminal charge sheet against a third person.
- Anyone who saw the YouTube clip should note it was posted on Thursday and speaks about leaving an unequal relationship; it does not describe the Friday hill plan.
- If a family member is in distress, local accounts said sarpanch Sanjay Jadhav and villagers stayed on the ridge for hours before the falls.
What's Happening
- Kunal had bought an iPhone and had been asking for EMI money, according to police; some early reports said the dispute was over buying a new phone.
- Tisgaon sarpanch Sanjay Jadhav said he even offered an iPhone to keep the youth talking, and that Kunal replied there was only one solution.
- The family originally came from Dhangar Pimpalgaon in Jalna and lived at Zalta Phata; Sangita had been living separately after an elder son's death about six years earlier.
How A Thursday Video Met A Friday Ridge
- Reports use Kohdya, Khavdya and Khawadya for the same hill near Tisgaon.
- The gorge depth is given as about 200 to 250 feet depending on the outlet.
- A later clip showed Sangita sitting on the ground, then walking toward Kunal, then being pulled back from another edge by people nearby.
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