Sonipat: Two young brothers, aged seven and six, drowned in a rainwater-filled pit at Shri 108 Baba Mohandas Gaushala in Shahpur Taga village, in the Ganaur area of Sonipat district, on Thursday. The children, identified as Sagar and Kartik, were playing on the gaushala premises when they reportedly entered the water-filled pit and drowned.The bodies were recovered later in the evening after the children went missing at around 4.30 pm. According to the family, the boys had been playing in the area when they disappeared from sight. Their relatives searched the gaushala premises and nearby areas for hours before gaushala employees joined the search and the bodies were eventually found.Sub-inspector Sunil of the Bari police station said the bodies were handed over to the family after the postmortem examination. He added that no FIR had been registered in the case, as the family had not submitted a complaint to the police. No action has been initiated against anyone in connection with the incident.The children’s father, Sandeep, is a native of Binoli village in Uttar Pradesh. He works at the Baba Mohandas Gaushala, where his duties include feeding fodder to the cattle.According to the information provided by the family, Sandeep had arrived at the gaushala with his family on Wednesday, a day before the tragedy. The family was staying within the gaushala premises.On Thursday, Sagar and Kartik were playing nearby when they reportedly approached a pit filled with rainwater. They are believed to have entered the excavation without realising its depth and were unable to get out.According to the information available, work was scheduled to begin on constructing a shed at the gaushala. Around 12 pits had reportedly been dug with the help of a JCB machine on Wednesday to accommodate the shed’s supporting pillars.Masons were expected to arrive on Thursday to begin the next stage of construction. However, work could not proceed as planned because of the rain.Heavy showers on Thursday reportedly caused waterlogging across parts of the gaushala premises, with rainwater accumulating in the newly dug pits.It was during this period that the two children are believed to have entered one of the water-filled excavations.According to the family, the boys suddenly became unaccounted for at around 4.30 pm. Their relatives began searching the gaushala premises and surrounding areas.When the children could not be found, the family also suspected that they might have gone to a wedding taking place in the village. Relatives went there to look for them, but the search yielded no results.The children’s mother reportedly did not realise that the boys had entered the water-filled pit. After seeing their clothes, she believed they might have taken them off before going to play somewhere nearby. The family continued searching without initially suspecting that the children could be inside one of the excavations.As the search continued, gaushala employees also joined the effort. The two boys were eventually found in a pit filled with rainwater and pulled out. However, they had died by then.The incident plunged the family into mourning. Police personnel from the Bari police station reached the spot after receiving information about the incident and initiated the necessary proceedings.Sub-inspector Sunil said the bodies were sent for postmortem examination and were subsequently handed over to the family. He confirmed that the police had not registered an FIR because no complaint had been submitted by the family.No action has been initiated against anyone in the case, according to the officer.