UP Medical College Tragedy: Junior Doctor and MBBS Student Drown in Budhi Rapti River

A devastating incident has plunged Madhav Prasad Tripathi Medical College in Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh, into deep mourning. A junior resident doctor and a second-year undergraduate medical student tragically drowned while swimming in a local river on Tuesday afternoon.

The Incident

According to reports confirmed by local police on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, a group of four individuals, including the medicos, left the medical college campus in a car. They traveled to the Budhi Rapti river near the Yogmaya Temple in the Jogia Kotwali area.

The group entered the river to bathe but were suddenly caught by strong currents and swept into much deeper water. As they began to drown and cry out for help, villagers from the nearby Udaipur village rushed to the scene and jumped into the river to assist them.

The Rescue Effort

The local villagers successfully managed to pull two of the individuals out of the water safely. Unfortunately, the two medicos, identified as 26-year-old Junior Resident Dr. Satyam Nayak (hailing from Kalwari, Basti) and 22-year-old second-year MBBS student Sachin Gaharwar (from Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan), were swept further into the deep currents.

Jogia Kotwali Station House Officer Abhay Singh reported that local divers were immediately deployed for a search operation. Following continuous efforts, the divers retrieved the bodies of the two medicos. They were rushed back to the Madhav Prasad Tripathi Medical College, where attending doctors tragically pronounced them dead on arrival.

The bodies have been shifted to the mortuary, and the respective families have been informed. Local police have registered a case and are currently conducting a routine investigation into the incident. The sudden loss has left the medical college staff and student body in a state of profound shock.