Overview
- Police said the three-year-old, visiting Dalelgarh with family, vanished around 11am during a temple feast and was later found in a nearby water-filled pit.
- Residents had warned the Greater Noida Authority in a February 4 letter about persistent water accumulation, lack of barricades and unknown depth along the village road.
- Greater Noida Authority officials inspected the location and stated the pit lies on privately owned land, limiting direct administrative action, while expressing condolences.
- No complaint has been filed by the family and they declined a post-mortem, police said, as the sub-divisional magistrate submitted a site report and the district magistrate asked GNIDA to install fencing by the religious site.
- The death follows recent NCR accidents linked to unsecured excavations, including the Noida Sector 150 drowning of a software engineer and a Janakpuri fatality involving a dug-up pit.