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NOIDA: UP govt connected Monday removed Lokesh M arsenic CEO of Noida Authority and formed an SIT to inquire into the decease of bundle technologist Yuvraj Mehta, who drowned Friday nighttime aft his car plunged into a waterlogged trench astatine a commercialized tract successful Sector 150.
The enactment followed CM Yogi Adityanath taking "serious cognisance" of the incident, reports Aditya Dev.The roadworthy Mehta took has a crisp right-angle crook that becomes hazardous successful fog without informing signs oregon lights. It has neither. Also, rescue was critically delayed.Mehta's begetter has accused constabulary and different agencies of hold successful redeeming him. Even though the techie was live and shouting for assistance by the clip policemen reached the spot, they did not cognize however to swim.
A elder constabulary serviceman told TOI knowing however to aquatics is not a mandatory request for a cop. Mehta, who couldn't aquatics and managed to enactment afloat by clinging to the car, went down crying for help.The SIT volition beryllium headed by further manager wide (ADG) Meerut Zone Bhanu Bhaskar and volition person divisional commissioner Bhanu Chandra Goswami and the main technologist of the PWD arsenic its 2 different members. It has been directed to taxable its study to the CM wrong 5 days.
Lokesh M, who headed Noida Metro Rail Corporation arsenic well, has been enactment connected compulsory waiting. As CEO, Lokesh was liable for the authority's regular administration, civic planning, and enforcement functions. A 2005-batch IAS serviceman of the UP cadre, helium took complaint arsenic CEO successful July 2023.An FIR was lodged connected Sunday against 2 existent property developers who won the task tract wherever the trench is dug - Wishtown Planners and Lotus Greens - for alleged negligence, including lack of barricades, reflectors and different information measures.
Earlier, Noida Authority suspended inferior technologist Naveen Kumar, who was liable for traffic-related enactment successful the area, and issued notices to different officials linked to the site.Locals protested astatine the mishap site, alleging Noida Authority's negligence. They said respective accidents had occurred astatine the aforesaid spot earlier and that repeated requests for barricades and reflectors were ignored. After the protest, the Noida Authority dumped hundreds of tonnes of debris adjacent the site.
