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NOIDA: The post-mortem study of 27-year-old bundle technologist Yuvraj Mehta, who drowned aft his SUV fell into a water-filled pit successful Sector 150, Greater Noida, has revealed that helium died owed to asphyxiation and cardiac failure.Trapped successful the deep, icy h2o connected a fog-choked night, Mehta struggled to past for astir 90 minutes. He managed to ascent onto the extortion of his sinking vehicle, repeatedly flashed his mobile phone’s torch, and called his begetter portion desperately trying to gully attention.
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An FIR has been registered against the builders liable for the unfastened pit, citing superior negligence, including the lack of barricading, reflectors and fencing.
Show-cause notices person besides been issued to officials and employees liable for postulation absorption successful and astir Sector 150.The mishap occurred astir 12.30am connected January 16–17, erstwhile Mehta, a Sector 150 resident, was driving location done dense fog and mediocre lighting. Near ATS Le Grandiose, his Grand Vitara crashed done a damaged bound partition and plunged into a pit astir 30 feet deep.Despite contiguous coordination betwixt the police, occurrence brigade, SDRF and NDRF, rescue efforts were severely hampered by near-zero visibility, the extent of the h2o and inadequate equipment.
A transportation idiosyncratic who reached the spot jumped into the freezing h2o successful a hopeless effort to prevention Mehta but could not find him. By the clip his assemblage was recovered astir 4.30am, Mehta had been successful the h2o for implicit an hr and a half.Residents and friends person alleged administrative lapses and delayed response, portion authorities person terminated a inferior engineer, issued show-cause notices to others, and ordered inspections of construction-site information measures.
