Another case has been registered in the death of Greater Noida engineer Yuvraj Mehta. The police lodged an FIR against 5 people. A case was registered under Environment Protection and Water Pollution Prevention Act. A case was registered against builders Abhay Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Achal Vohra and Nirmal at Knowledge Park police station. A case was filed against Lotus Green Construction Private Limited and partners of Wish Town.

The accident happened on the night of 16 January

Yuvraj Mehta, who works in Gurugram, was returning home on the night of January 16, when his car fell into a deep pit filled with water near a construction site in Sector-150. He reportedly died after pleading for help for about two hours.

A builder in judicial custody

Let us tell you that a builder arrested in the case of engineer’s death was sent to judicial custody on Wednesday till January 27. Meanwhile, the SIT has intensified the investigation into the case and has interrogated Noida Authority officials facing allegations of negligence. Assistant government advocate Dharmendra Jayant said that Abhay Kumar, one of the accused builders and director of ‘MJ Viztown Planners’, was produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate located in Surajpur, where he was sent to jail in judicial custody till January 27.

Court reprimanded for negligence

Jayant said, “During the hearing, the court reprimanded the court for negligence in this case. Making a strong comment, the court directed the police that in the investigation it should also be clear as to whose negligence it is. If the drain is broken then who is responsible? Not only this, if the barricade is not installed then who is responsible for it? According to him, the court said that all this should be a part of the investigation, because when people were complaining about this for a few years, then why was no action taken at the appropriate time.

Forensic experts collected samples

Meanwhile, Assistant Police Commissioner (Greater Noida) Hemant Upadhyay said that efforts are on to arrest the second builder of real estate developer ‘Lotus Greens’ named in the FIR. He said forensic experts collected samples from the accident site on Wednesday as part of the investigation. The three-member SIT constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government spent several hours at the Noida Authority headquarters in Sector-6 and interrogated senior officials as well as junior-level employees, especially those associated with the traffic cell, officials said.

The administration also talked to the victim’s father

The SIT formed under the leadership of Additional Director General of Police (Meerut Zone) Bhanu Bhaskar had reached Noida on Tuesday. This team also includes the Divisional Commissioner of Meerut and the Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department. The team visited the accident site located in Sector-150 and also spoke to the victim’s father Raj Kumar Mehta. Since Wednesday morning, teams of forensic laboratory and other departments were seen taking measurements of the road and the adjacent drain at the incident site in Sector-150. The officials carefully inspected the entire area including the deep pit from where the car of deceased Yuvraj Mehta was taken out on Tuesday evening.

Union Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has given a big statement on the death of software engineer Yuvraj Mehta in a tragic accident in Greater Noida on Wednesday (January 21, 2026) from the platform of Indio 2047 Youth Conclave organized by ABP Network. He said that this is a very unfortunate incident. I can understand this because I have also been a victim of a road accident. My paragraph was broken at four places and hence I would say that this incident is very unfortunate.

He said, ‘My biggest priority is how to eliminate road accidents. I don’t like it at all, I feel ashamed to say that in our country there are 5 lakh road accidents, 1 lakh 80 thousand people die and 66% of the youth in the age group of 18 to 30 die in this.

Passers-by who take the injured to the hospital in a road accident declare – Gadkari

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said, ‘There is a feeling in the minds of common people regarding helping the injured in road accidents that if I help something, the police will go after me, the matter will go to the court, so why get into trouble. So the Supreme Court has also given a decision regarding this and we have also reformed the law that if a person gets injured in a road accident and someone picks him up and immediately takes him to any hospital, then we declare him a traveler and immediately give him a reward of Rs 25,000. After this, there will be no questioning of any kind from that person, there will be no problem.

#ABPYouthConclave | “I feel ashamed…” Listen to what Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said while calling the death of engineer Yuvraj Mehta in Noida as an “unfortunate incident”!#IndiaAt2047 #ABPYouthConclave #YuvrajMehta #NoidaAccident #ABPNews | @nitin_gadkari | @MeghaSPrasad pic.twitter.com/VLcNtUgimc

— ABP News (@ABPNews) January 21, 2026

He said, ‘If a person injured in a road accident goes to any hospital for treatment, we will pay him a minimum of Rs 1.5 lakh for his hospital expenses for 7 days. Whether the accident happens on a village road, in a city, in a district, on a state highway or a national highway.

Nitin Gadkari spoke about AIIMS report

The Union Minister said, ‘AIIMS has published a report, which says that if someone meets with an accident and we help immediately, then we can save the lives of at least 50 thousand people.’ He said, ‘This means that if someone meets with an accident and is immediately taken to the hospital for treatment, the chances of his death are reduced.’

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Actor Saurabh Raj Jain expresses his views openly on social media. Recently he has expressed grief over the death of a tech professional in Noida Sector 150. He has also criticized Noida Authority.

Let us tell you that Yuvraj Mehta was returning home after working from Gurugram. At that very moment his car fell into a deep pit. Yuvraj kept asking for help to save his life for 2 hours. But no help reached him and ultimately he died. Complaints were made many times about that deep pit, but no action was taken. Everyone is angry with this incident. Actors have also expressed anger. Also expressed anger over the negligence of Noida Authority.

Saurabh Raj Jain vented his anger

Saurabh Raj Jain wrote- The incident that happened in Noida, in which a young engineer drowned and died. He kept pleading for help for 2 hours. This is horrifying and shocking. As citizens, are we paying this price? The authority which runs on our money could not take action in time. This is not a sudden accident. He kept asking for help for 2 hours. Does the authority have no responsibility? be ashamed of.

Shame NDRF, Shame Fire Dept, Shame on authorities, you couldn’t save a young kid! I wonder why your departments even exist if you could not do a basic job for which you train your entire life with tax payers money! Bravo that Flip-cart Delivery guy who tried! @PMOIndia… pic.twitter.com/DUBmfw2ymJ

— Abhinav Shukla (@ashukla09) January 19, 2026

Actor Abhinav Shukla said, ‘This is the case of Yuvraj Mehta, in which a young boy was driving a car at night and he collided with a car at a construction site and fell into the water. After that he called for rescue from the phone and fire department, police department, NDRF all arrived. The crane came, the ropes came. But no one entered the water. He stood on top of his car for 2 hours and kept saying save me. And all those departments whose job is to save people. They were all standing there. A delivery boy tried but even after 2 hours of this drama no one could save the boy. I think all departments should resign.

26-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta died after falling into a drain in Sector 150 of Noida last Friday (January 16) evening. Due to dense fog, he could not see the way and Yuvraj’s car fell into the drain. Due to timely help not arriving, the administration was accused of negligence. There was neither any signboard nor any alert written there. If help had reached Yuvraj in time, he would have been safe with his parents today.

The negligence of the administration can also be gauged from the fact that a few days before the engineer’s accident, a truck had also met with an accident at the same place. This drain was broken due to a truck collision late on 31st December. If the drain had been repaired at that time, this fatal accident could have been avoided.

Yuvraj’s car was taken out on the fourth day of the accident

On Tuesday, January 20, the fourth day after the accident, Yuvraj Mehta’s car was taken out from the drain. Efforts to find the vehicle were going on for a long time, but success was achieved on Tuesday. A video of the engineer’s car being pulled out has also surfaced, in which it was seen that the sunroof of the vehicle was open. The car was wrapped in bushes and its bonnet was also open.

Let us tell you, Yuvraj kept struggling for two hours to save himself. During that time he came on the roof of the car and kept appealing to the people for help. He kept shouting help-help and showing his location with the torch of his phone but help did not reach him on time. For this reason the sunroof of Yuvraj’s car must have been open.

Truck accident happened due to fog

This clearly shows that there has been negligence somewhere on the part of the concerned officials of Noida Authority, because even on the day of the truck accident, the police is seen in the video. The truck accident also happened due to fog. Fog is clearly visible in the video, but there is no signboard or barricading.

Asked for money to repair the drain from the truck driver himself

According to media reports, the name of the truck driver is said to be Gurvinder Singh. He says that he was lucky that he survived, but how many more people like Yuvraj will have to die due to the negligence of the administration? Recalling the day of the accident, Gurvinder Singh said that there was neither any signboard nor barricades installed there. He thought that there would be a road ahead, but due to the drain, the front wheels of his truck got stuck in it. The truck got stuck at 12 o’clock in the night and remained stuck there for the next four hours.

The truck driver told that 2-3 policemen had come there but no help was provided. The next day in the afternoon, the Noida Authority team came and instead started asking Gurvinder Singh that who would pay for the repair of this broken drain?