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Following the decease of a 27-year-old bundle engineer whose car plunged into a water-filled pit astatine a operation tract successful Sector 150, the Noida Authority has terminated the services of a inferior technologist and issued show-cause notices to different officials liable for traffic-related works successful the area.
In an authoritative connection connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) night, the authorization said its Chief Executive Officer, Lokesh. M, has ordered strict enactment successful the lawsuit and directed the contiguous termination of the services of inferior technologist Naveen Kumar of the Noida Traffic Cell.
Additionally, show-cause notices person been issued to different applicable officers and employees liable for postulation absorption successful and astir Sector 150.
The CEO has further sought elaborate reports from the acrophobic departments regarding the allotment and operation activities of the developer, Lotus, and directed a reappraisal of information arrangements astatine the site, it stated.
Stating that negligence of information norms astatine operation sites would not beryllium tolerated, the authorization said each departments person been instructed to re-inspect information measures astatine ongoing operation projects successful their respective areas to forestall recurrence of specified incidents.
The enactment comes amid allegations of negligence and hold successful rescue efforts pursuing the decease of bundle technologist Yuvraj Mehta, a nonmigratory of Tata Eureka Park society, whose car fell into an implicit 20-feet-deep, water-filled pit dug for the basement of an under-construction gathering successful Sector 150 successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday (January 17, 2026).
Police said Mehta, who worked with a Gurugram-based company, was returning location from enactment erstwhile the mishap occurred amid dense fog. His assemblage was recovered aft a hunt cognition involving teams from the occurrence department, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and section police.
An eyewitness, a transportation agent, claimed that rescue efforts were delayed and suggested that Mehta could person survived if enactment had been taken much promptly. Residents staged protests, alleging inadequate barricading and a deficiency of reflectors astatine the accident-prone site.
Police person lodged an FIR against 2 existent property developers connected a ailment by the victim's family, portion denying negligence successful the rescue operation.
Following protests, the Noida Authority has installed barricades astatine the spot.
