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The Noida constabulary connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) arrested 2 much builders successful transportation with the decease of a bundle technologist who drowned aft his car plunged into a waterlogged trench adjacent a operation tract successful Sector 150 successful Noida, officials said.
"The arrested accused person been identified arsenic Ravi Bansal, a nonmigratory of Faridabad, and Sachin Karnwal, a nonmigratory of Ghaziabad," a constabulary authoritative told PTI.
The authoritative said some the arrested persons are associated with existent property developer Lotus Greens, though their nonstop designation successful the institution could not beryllium confirmed immediately.
According to the police, the arrests were made by the Knowledge Park constabulary presumption squad successful a lawsuit registered nether Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 106 (causing decease by negligence) and 125 (act endangering beingness oregon idiosyncratic information of others).
"It is noteworthy that connected the intervening nighttime of January 16 and 17, a car driver, Yuvraj Mehta (27), died aft drowning successful a waterlogged crippled owed to alleged negligence connected the portion of the builder and its associates astatine a operation tract of Lotus Greens," the constabulary said successful a connection connected Thursday (January 22, 2026).
Mehta, who worked arsenic a bundle technologist successful Gurugram, was returning location successful Sector 150 erstwhile his car fell into a water-filled pit adjacent the operation site. He allegedly remained trapped — archetypal wrong the conveyance and past extracurricular it -- for astir 2 hours portion pleading for assistance earlier drowning, constabulary said.
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The FIR was lodged against Lotus Greens and MZ Wiztown Planners astatine the Knowledge Park Police Station pursuing a ailment by the victim's father.
On Tuesday (January 20, 2026) , the constabulary arrested Abhay Kumar, manager of MZ Wiztown Planners, successful transportation with the case, and helium was sent to judicial custody connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) , according to officials.
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The constabulary connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) lodged a abstracted FIR successful transportation with the lawsuit and booked 5 named officials of the 2 existent property firms, charging them with violating biology and contamination norms, too negligence astatine the operation site.
Additionally, the lawsuit is being probed by a Special Investigation Team formed by the Uttar Pradesh authorities amid nationalist outrage and allegations of negligence by developers and the Noida Authority.
