Indore, Jan. 28 -- The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court questioned the state government over its death audit report related to Indore's Bhagirathpura water contamination incident and appointed a former judge as a one-man commission to probe the issue.

While hearing a set of petitions linked to the Bhagirathpura water contamination issue on Tuesday, a division bench of Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi also directed that the Commission should submit an interim report after four weeks.

During the proceedings, the state government submitted a death audit and analytical report stating that out of 23 reported deaths, 16 were due to water contamination, while the remaining cases were termed inconclusive.

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