India, June 16 -- A day after eight members of a family died when the mini truck they were travelling in veered off the Satara-Pandharpur road and plunged into an open, roadside well near Tandulwadi village in Solapur's Malshiras tehsil Sunday evening, an FIR has been filed against the road contractor while Solapur district collector S Karthikeyan has constituted a five-member committee to investigate the tragedy apart from ordering a district-wide survey of wells located near roads and highways.

The FIR was filed at Velapur police station under sections 105, 125(a) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on the complaint of Siddheshwar Popat Jadhav, 37, one of the survivors of the mishap. Solapur rural police have registered a cri...