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Search for body begins five days after the 75-yr-old drowned
The preparations for the Kabaddi World Cup 2010 kept the official machinery in the city so busy that they began to search for the body of 75-year-old Inder Singh five days after he fell into the Buddha Nallah at Deep Nagar.
On the night of April 7, Singh had gone to attend nature's call when he reportedly fell into the nallah. Since April 8, the family, with the help of private divers, has been searching for the body. "A child saw him falling and told us the next day," says his nephew Ampritpal Singh Bittu.
A rickshaw-puller, Singh lived in a one-room house with his brother Babu Ram near the open drain. The police was informed on April 8, as confirmed by the police, but investigations in the past few days were rather slow. However, today councillors Raju Thapar, Rinku Malhi and Avtar Tari asked the Municipal Corporation to send immediate help to fish out the body.
Municipal Commissioner A K Sinha said, "I received a call that a person had fallen in the nallah but we cannot take any action unless we are asked by the police to help. So when the police informed us, we sent the machines."
According to Bittu Daljeet Singh, SHO Division Number 4, "No one had seen the man falling in the nallah. It's just an apprehension of the family members. However, we have called JCB machine from the Municipal Corporation but they have not located the body."
The divers are doing their job but Singh's body has still not been found.
Choked Buddha NallahThe Newsline team saw the choked nallah in which the divers were seen cutting the solid waste dumps to fish out the body. The condition of the nallah raises questions on the cleanliness drive of the municipal corporation. More than Rs 20 lakh was spent to 'clean' the drain last year.
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