India, Jan. 28 -- The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court on Tuesday raised objections to the death audit and analysis of the deaths of 23 people in Indore's Bhagirathpura area roughly a month ago due to contaminated water, observing that the government report failed to explain the cause of death with reasoning or supporting material.

The remarks by the division bench of justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and Alok Awasthi came on a set of petitions linked to the crisis which became public on December 29 when three residents of Bhagirathpura died after complaining of vomiting and diarrhoea. Since then, at least 23 deaths have been linked to sewage mixed with the drinking water supply.

On Tuesday, the bench termed the report -submitted...