Kamal Ghorui
NEW DELHI: Days after 27-year old Noida techie drowned in a waterlogged trench, NDRF team pulled out his car on Tuesday. Police said the accident occurred in Greater Noida, within the jurisdiction of the Knowledge Park police station, late on the night of January 16–17, when the deceased Yuvraj Mehta’s car broke through the edge of a drain at the Sector 150 crossing and fell into the water.The NDRF team used boats and divers to locate his car and pull it out three days after the incident and loaded onto a truck.
Meanwhile, earlier in the day, police arrested the director of a real estate firm in connection with the death of the 27-year-old software engineer, while a Special Investigation Team (SIT) visited the spot and initiated its probe into the incident, officials said. “Abhay Kumar, the director of MZ Wiztown Planners and one of the accused in the case, has been arrested from Sector 150,” said, Additional Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Hemant Upadhyay, quoted by ANI.Also read: How civic neglect killed techie in ‘planned’ Noida; 2015 proposal ignoredEyewitnesses said the victim repeatedly cried out for help for nearly two hours, but despite the presence of police personnel and rescue teams at the site, he could not be rescued.His body was recovered on Saturday following an extended search operation carried out by the fire department, police, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).Also read: Tale of a lucky trucker and an unlucky techie- How freezing water & ‘cold’ response cost a young life in NoidaWith regards to the probe, the three-member SIT, with ADG Bhanu Bhaskar, Meerut divisional commissioner Bhanu Chandra Goswami and Public Works Department chief engineer Ajay Verma, has been directed to submit its report within five days.Additionally, UP government also removed senior IAS officer Lokesh M as the CEO of Noida Authority, placing him on the “waitlist”.The case pertains to the incident, when Mehta’s SUV fell into a nearly 30-foot-deep, water-filled pit at a commercial site amid dense fog and low visibility. The pit was allegedly not secured with barricades, reflectors or warning signs.
