Noida techie's death: FIR lodged against two builders

NEW DELHI: An FIR has been lodged against 2 existent property developers aft 27-year-old, Yuvraj Mehta, died erstwhile his car skidded disconnected the roadworthy and plunged into an implicit 20-feet-deep, water-filled pit successful Greater Noida amid dense fog.

The victim’s household alleged that repeated requests to instal barricades and reflectors astatine the accident-prone tract were ignored, starring to the tragedy.The deceased, Yuvraj Mehta, was a nonmigratory of Tata Eureka Park nine successful Sector 150 and worked arsenic a bundle technologist with a reputed institution successful Gurugram. He was returning location from enactment erstwhile the mishap occurred successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday, constabulary said.ACP Hemant Upadhyay told PTI that the FIR has been lodged against the 2 developers connected the ground of the ailment filed by Mehta’s household successful transportation with the incident.Moninder, a transportation cause and eyewitness, alleged that rescue efforts were delayed and said the techie could person been saved if timely enactment had been taken.Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Rajeev Narayan Mishra described the incidental arsenic unfortunate but denied negligence. He said, "Police and occurrence section teams made efforts to prevention the youth. A occurrence section crane, ladder, makeshift vessel and searchlights were used, but determination was zero visibility astatine that time."

Police earlier said preliminary findings suggested fog and imaginable overspeeding arsenic factors down the accident. The assemblage has been sent for post-mortem examination.Mishra added that further probe is underway. "Strict enactment volition beryllium taken arsenic per law," helium said.Local residents staged protests and held a candle march connected Sunday evening demanding justness for Mehta. They alleged negligence connected the portion of the section authorization and country developers that led to the tragedy. Following the protest, the Noida Authority installed barricades astatine the site.