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A 27-year-old bundle technologist died aft his car went retired of power and fell into a 20-feet-deep water-filled pit that was dug for the basement of an under-construction gathering successful Sector 150 of Greater Noida, constabulary said connected Sunday (January 18, 2026).
The incidental occurred successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday (January 17, 2026), pursuing which a hunt cognition was launched. The assemblage was recovered aboriginal successful the greeting with the assistance of teams from the occurrence department, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the section police.
Police astatine the Knowledge Park constabulary presumption said they received accusation astatine astir 12.15 a.m. that a car had plunged into a pit adjacent Sector 150.
The deceased was identified arsenic Yuvraj Mehta, a nonmigratory of Tata Eureka Park nine successful Sector 150. He was moving arsenic a bundle technologist with a reputed institution successful Gurugram and was returning location from enactment astatine the clip of the incident, constabulary said.
"The hunt cognition was carried retired with the assistance of the NDRF, SDRF, occurrence section and section police. The assemblage was recovered astatine astir 4 a.m. connected Saturday (January 17, 2026)," Additional Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Hemant Upadhyay said.
He said preliminary probe suggested that fog and overspeeding whitethorn person led to the accident, pursuing which the car crossed a drain and fell into the pit.
The assemblage has been sent for post-mortem introspection and further probe is underway, constabulary said.
Local residents staged a protestation against the Noida Authority, alleging negligence. They claimed that akin accidents had occurred successful the past and that authorities had been repeatedly informed astir the request for due barricading and reflectors adjacent the drain.
"Residents had requested the Noida Authority to instal barricades and reflectors, but nary enactment was taken," a protester alleged.
