The police, on Tuesday, arrested the director of a real estate group in connection with the death of a software engineer, whose car had plunged into a water-filled pit at a construction site in Noida's Sector 150.
"Abhay Kumar, director of MZ Wiztown Planners and one of the accused in the case, has been arrested from Sector 150," Additional Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Hemant Upadhyay said.
The 27-year-old techie, Yuvraj Mehta, a resident of Sector-150, Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar, was killed in the early hours of Saturday after his car skidded in dense fog, broke a drain boundary, and fell into a deep, waterlogged pit, dug for the basement of an under-construction commercial complex near a drain.
According to news agency PTI, the police had filed an FIR against two real estate developers—MZ Wiztown Planners and Lotus Greens—on a complaint by the victim's father, Raj Kumar Mehta, who alleged negligence by local authorities and sought accountability.
While Kumar of Wiztown Planners has been arrested, there was no official updatefrom the police on action against the other accused firm.
The arrest came on a day a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by the Additional Director General (ADG), Meerut Zone, Bhanu Bhaskar visited the accident site to examine the circumstances leading to the incident.
On Monday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered that a three-member SIT be set up to probe the case in the wake of public outrage and allegations of negligence by officials and developers.
The state government also removed senior IAS officer Lokesh M as the Noida Authority CEO on Monday, putting him on "waitlist".
The FIR has been lodged under Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 106 (causing death by negligence) and 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) and other relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the police said.
