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Another FIR has been lodged against 5 builders of Lotus Greens Construction Pvt Ltd and MZ Wiztown Planners Pvt Ltd for alleged violations of biology and contamination laws successful transportation with a ample waterlogged pit successful Sector 150, which led to the decease of a bundle engineer, officials said connected Thursday (January 22, 2026).
The FIR has been lodged adjacent arsenic a Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Uttar Pradesh authorities connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) continued its probe into the substance connected the 3rd day.
Officials alert of the developments said the SIT has sought details from assorted departments of the Noida Authority, including civil, projects, and postulation cell, astir works done successful Sector 150, peculiarly astir the spot wherever the bundle technologist died.
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The three-member squad has to taxable its study to the authorities by Saturday, SIT caput ADG (Meerut Zone) Bhanu Bhaskar had told reporters connected the archetypal time of inspections successful Noida.
On Wednesday (January 21, 2026), a caller lawsuit was registered astatine the Knowledge Park constabulary presumption against Abhay Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Manish Kumar, Anchal Bohra and Nirmal Kumar nether Section 15 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, Sections 24 and 43 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, and Sections 290, 270 and 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), according to the FIR.
In the complaint, section sub-inspector Regal Kumar said that during patrolling connected January 20, a "very ample and wide pit" was recovered astatine crippled fig SC-02/A3 successful Sector 150, adjacent to a nationalist road. The pit appeared to person been excavated utilizing dense machinery and had remained filled with h2o for respective years, it said.
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The FIR noted that the pit is precise heavy and that prolonged stagnation of h2o has led to terrible pollution, with the h2o turning muddy. It added that rainwater had carried garbage into the pit, contributing to aerial contamination and posing risks to nationalist wellness and safety. Police further noted that nary fencing, informing signs oregon different information measures were recovered astir the pit. Leaving specified a large, unfastened and waterlogged pit adjacent a nationalist roadworthy for a agelong play posed a superior menace to quality beingness and accrued the hazard of large accidents, the FIR stated, terming it a nationalist nuisance.
The FIR besides mentioned that the operation sites were located adjacent to the pit, indicating violations of operation absorption norms. Locals person besides complained that the foul odor from the stagnant h2o makes breathing hard erstwhile the upwind blows towards residential areas.
During the inquiry, constabulary recovered that the crippled was purchased from the Noida Authority successful 2014 by Lotus Greens Construction Pvt Ltd and was aboriginal acquired successful 2020 by Wiztown. The FIR besides stated that Lotus Greens Construction continues to clasp a stock successful the property.
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"The FIR has been registered against 5 builders; further probe is on," Assistant Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Hemant Upadhyay said.
The constabulary had registered the archetypal FIR successful the lawsuit connected January 18 based connected the ailment of the deceased bundle technologist Yuvraj Mehta's begetter against MZ Wiztown Planners and Lotus Greens nether provisions related to negligence, culpable homicide not amounting to execution and endangering life.
The constabulary connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) arrested Abhay Kumar, the manager of MZ Wiztown Planners, who was remanded successful judicial custody connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026), officials said.
