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Developer Arrested as SIT Probes Noida Pit Death After Car Is Recovered Three Days Later

A five-day inquiry will examine site safety lapses alongside the rescue response.

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.