Another Civic Apathy In NCR: 5-Year-Old Boy Drowns In Unsecured Pond In Greater Noida, Body Recovered After 48 Hours

Greater Noida: In yet another case of civic apathy in Delhi-NCR, a five-year-old boy died after drowning in an unsecured pond in Greater Noida. The young boy reportedly fell in the pond due to the lack of a boundary wall. The child's body was recovered after 48 hours with the use of a crane.

The child went to play last week when he fell into the pond. The family and villagers searched for the child extensively, but could not find him. Thereafter, a police complaint was filed and a search operation was launched.

The parents identified the child by his clothes, identifying him as Ishu. The post-mortem report will reveal how the child died.

An eyewitness said, “Yesterday afternoon, I was returning from school and saw something. Our house is near the pond. I checked the body with a stick and found it was a dead body. It had been lying there for several days, which is why it was floating on the surface. Several incidents have occurred here before; a child had fallen while playing. The noida authority has created a mess here.”

Noida Techie's Death

The tragic death of the child comes just a month after a 27-year-old techie named Yuvraj Mehta died after his car collided with a drainage boundary amid dense fog and he fell into a waterlogged construction pit in Noida.

Janakpuri Biker's Death

Earlier in February, a 25-year-old man named Kamal Dhyani passed away after his motorcycle fell into a 20-foot-deep pit in West Delhi. The uncovered pit in which the young man fell was dug by the Delhi Jal Board during road work in West Delhi's Janakpuri area.

According to the FIR, no warning signs, reflectors, barricades or proper lighting arrangements were present at the site. Further, no security guard had been deployed at the site and the pit was left open in the middle of a public road without any safety measures.

Labourer Falls In DDA Manhole

Just few days after the Janakpuri tragedy, a labourer who was going home after partying fell in a manhole in Delhi's Rohini and died. The manhole, managed by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), had been carelessly left open. The victim was identified as Birju Kumar, who was a labourer. He was a resident of Samastipur district, Bihar.

Birju's friends said that the drain had been constructed by the DDA only few months ago. They lamented that Birju's life may have been saved if the manhole had been covered properly.

The back-to-back incidents have once again exposed glaring lapses by civic bodies, whose negligence continues to put public safety at serious risk. 

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