Si year-old drowns in rainwater-filled borewell pit in Greater Noida: No barricade, no warning sign
A si year-old boy reportedly drowned in a rainwater-filled borewell pit in Greater Noida's Knowledge Park on Saturday. Avyaan Surya, son of Kendriya Vidyalaya Vice
A si year-old boy reportedly drowned in a rainwater-filled borewell pit in Greater Noida's Knowledge Park on Saturday. Avyaan Surya, son of Kendriya Vidyalaya Vice Principal Siwan Yadav, was playing when the incident took place, Jagran reported. Residents arrived upon hearing the cries of other children. After much effort, Surya was pulled out and taken to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead. Upon receiving information about the accident, police arrived at the scene and conducted an investigation. Surya's body was sent for post-mortem. How did the child die? Locals said the 15-foot-deep pit was dug several days ago for boring purposes near Kaladham Society in the Knowledge Park police station area. There was neither any barricade nor any warning sign around the pit, the report added.
SDM Sadar Ashutosh Gupta, who visited the spot, was quoted by NDTV as saying that initial information suggests there was no barricading around the pit. He reportedly said that the contractor responsible for the site would face legal action if found negligent. The victim's family alleged negligence by Greater Noida Authority officials. The deceased's father told ANI, “…my child is no longer with us. I arrived home yesterday evening. I was just sitting there, and I got the news from the people living in the colony that something like this had happened, and he was immediately pulled out of a huge pit.” “The authorities were carrying out work there... I immediately took him to Yatharth Hospital.
Doctors tried hard, and after that, the child was declared dead. But it's sad that despite living in a good society, we had to suffer because of the negligence of the authorities... What mistake did we make that led to the loss of my child?...,” the father said. Case filed Police registered a case based on the family's complaint, as locals demand accountability for the unbarricaded pit, citing a similar past incident. Inspector-in-Charge Vinod Kumar told Jagran that a case is being registered after receiving a written complaint from the victim's family. Based on the investigation's findings, action will be taken against the accused. Residents also recalled the death of 27-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta, who drowned after his car plunged into a waterlogged pit near a construction site in Noida on the intervening night of January 16 and 17.
They alleged that despite assurances from the authority to secure such hazardous sites, little had changed. Yuvraj Mehta's case Software engineer Yuvraj Mehta died after his Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara fell into a water-filled pit dug in Greater Noida near Sector 150 on the night of 16–17 January. Mehta was returning from work when his car skidded off the road due to dense fog and fell into a pit dug for the basement of an under-construction building near Sector 150.
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