Two more builders were arrested on Thursday in connection with the death of a 27-year-old software engineer whose car plunged into a water-filled pit at Sector 150 in Greater Noida.
The Noida police arrested Ravi Bansal and Sachin Karanwal following a complaint filed by Rajkumar Mehta, father of the deceased techie Yuvraj Mehta, on January 18.
Earlier, Abhay Kumar, director of real estate firm MZ Wiztown Planners, had been taken into custody in the case. A three-member Special Investigation Team constituted on the directions of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited the site and recreated the sequence of events leading to the incident, police officials said.
Meanwhile, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) sought responses from the Noida Authority and other agencies, highlighting alleged failures in stormwater management that may have contributed to the drowning on the intervening night of January 16 and 17. In its order, the tribunal noted that a stormwater management plan prepared by the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department in 2015 had proposed the construction of a head regulator to divert excess water into the Hindon river. The Noida Authority released ₹13.05 lakh in 2016 for survey and design work, but the proposed infrastructure was never executed. The tribunal observed that critical decisions were discussed but not implemented.
