Overview
- Greater Noida police arrested Abhay Kumar, director of MZ Wiztown Planners, on charges including culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- An FIR names MZ Wiztown Planners and Lotus Greens, and the Uttar Pradesh government has formed a three-member SIT led by ADG Bhanu Bhaskar with a five-day deadline.
- Multi-agency teams from the NDRF, SDRF, police and fire services retrieved Yuvraj Mehta’s submerged car three days after the crash in a waterlogged excavation at Sector 150.
- The autopsy cited asphyxia from ante-mortem drowning, while rescue accounts remain contested after a delivery worker revised his initial statement and the victim’s father alleged critical delays.
- Separately in Jabalpur, police said they identified the suspected driver in a hit-and-run that struck highway labourers as hospital reports put the death toll at five despite a lower official count.