Noida techie’s death: Builder arrested for criminal negligence

GREATER NOIDA: Police connected Tuesday arrested Abhay Kumar, the builder and proprietor of MZ Wiztown, successful transportation with the decease of 27-year-old bundle technologist Yuvraj Mehta.Abhay Kumar, manager of Wiztown Planners Private Limited, was arrested by Knowledge Park constabulary from Sector 150 connected January 20. He has been booked nether Sections 105, 106(1) and 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for alleged culpable homicide owed to negligence. Police said the apprehension was made successful transportation with alleged negligence astatine a operation tract linked to the incident. He volition beryllium produced earlier a tribunal arsenic per procedure.Acting connected the directions of the constabulary commissioner, Gautam Buddh Nagar, and nether the supervision of elder constabulary officials, a peculiar squad led by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Greater Noida First, successfully apprehended the accused.

Police said further verification of the transgression past of the accused is underway.The lawsuit relates to the incidental connected the nighttime of January 17, erstwhile Mehta’s SUV plunged into a water-filled pit astir 30 feet heavy astatine a commercialized tract successful Sector 150 amid dense fog and mediocre visibility. The pit allegedly lacked barricades, reflectors and informing signage.The post-mortem study revealed that Mehta died owed to asphyxiation and cardiac failure.

He is believed to person remained trapped successful the h2o for astir 90 minutes, during which helium climbed onto his sinking vehicle, flashed his mobile phone’s torch and called for help.An FIR had earlier been registered against builders linked to the tract for superior information lapses.The incidental has besides led to large administrative action. The Uttar Pradesh authorities removed the Noida Authority CEO and acceptable up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the circumstances surrounding the death.Residents of Sector 150 protested astatine the site, alleging repeated warnings astir the hazardous agelong were ignored. Authorities person since suspended a inferior engineer, issued notices to different officials, and ordered inspections of construction-site information crossed the area.Police said further probe is underway and much enactment whitethorn travel based connected the SIT’s findings.