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A transportation agent, who reached the mishap tract aft a 27-year-old bundle engineer's car fell into a water-filled heavy pit successful Greater Noida, connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) said helium himself jumped into the pit successful a hopeless effort to assistance the unfortunate erstwhile helium saw rescue workers struggling.
Moninder, the transportation agent, said helium was astatine the mishap tract successful Sector 150 astatine astir 1:45 a.m. Saturday (January 17, 2026) and alleged that rescue unit were initially reluctant to participate the h2o due to the fact that of the cold, mediocre visibility and the beingness of robust rods astatine the operation site.
"I tied a enactment astir my waist and went into the h2o myself. I searched for the younker and his car for astir 30 minutes," Mr. Moninder told reporters, adding that helium was aboriginal told that "if assistance had reached 10 minutes earlier, the techie could person been saved".
He claimed that Mehta was initially seen lasting connected the extortion of his car, utilizing his mobile phone's torch to awesome passers-by and pleading for help.
Mr. Moninder besides said the aforesaid ditch had earlier witnessed different mishap successful which a motortruck operator was rescued by locals utilizing ropes and a ladder.
Police, however, rejected allegations of negligence. Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Rajeev Narayan Mishra said constabulary and occurrence section teams made efforts to prevention the younker and deployed a crane, ladder, makeshift vessel and searchlights, but visibility was adjacent zero owed to fog.
According to the Knowledge Park constabulary station, accusation was received astir 12:15 a.m. that a car had fallen into a pit dug for the basement of an under-construction gathering adjacent Sector 150.
After an implicit five-hour hunt operation, the assemblage was recovered aboriginal connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) greeting with the assistance of teams from the occurrence department, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the section police.
Mehta's father, Raj Kumar Mehta, described his past speech with his lad and demanded accountability for what helium termed negligence astatine the site.
"I spoke to him soon earlier the accident. He told maine helium was connected his mode home," the grieving begetter said. "A small later, helium called again successful panic and said his car had met with an mishap and fallen into a drain. He asked maine to travel immediately." Sensing the urgency, helium rushed to the spot. "Police were called and immoderate radical adjacent besides tried to help, but thing could beryllium done to prevention my son," helium said.
The begetter said erstwhile helium reached the spot, helium again called his lad but could not find the conveyance arsenic the visibility was low.
"Somehow, erstwhile I called him, helium opened the torchlight of his telephone wrong the car due to the fact that of which we could spot a faint small airy from the h2o body. But it was truthful hard for anybody to get wrong the h2o body. Police and different rescue officials tried throwing a rope, but to nary avail," helium told reporters.
The begetter besides claimed if adept divers could person gone successful past possibly his lad would person been saved.
