Overview
- Greater Noida police said 5-year-old Devraj died after falling into a 3-feet water-filled plot in Chhapraula, with locals pulling him out by rope before he was declared dead at a nearby hospital.
- Investigators in Greater Noida found the roadside plot lacked barricades and had accumulated village waste, while the SDM said rain caused the water; the district gave the family ₹4 lakh.
- This was reported as the district’s third death linked to open, waterlogged plots in about three months, following fatalities in February and January.
- In Mumbai’s Malad (East), 8-year-old Divyansh Rajesh Mourya died after entering an excavation area to retrieve a ball and falling into a water-filled pit; he was taken to a Kandivali civic hospital and declared dead on arrival.
- Kurar Police registered a case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for causing death by negligence, naming the site engineer and contractor at an SRA project; the SRA issued a 48-hour show-cause notice to the developer over missing barricades and safety measures.