Bodies of elderly couple found in well

The bodies of a panchayat sevak and his wife were today found in a well at Tankadih village in Khunti district of Jharkhand, the police said.

The police recovered the body of Loharsi Manki (55) and his wife Subodhini (50), who were missing from February 25, Sub-Divisional Police Officer Deepak Kumar Sharma told reporters here.

Manki was working as a sevak at Mandar panchayat in neighbouring Ranchi district, he said.