Hyderabad: Man swept into lake amid rain, body found hours later

Rachakonda police commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat told the press Naveen could not be rescued despite teams of the disaster response force of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) searching till 3 am Monday. The operation was resumed at 7 am and the body was fished out around 3.30 pm.

The presence of mud and slush in the polluted water body delayed the rescue operation, he said, while announcing a cash reward to the personnel part of the attempt.

K Seetharam, the station house officer of Saroornagar police station, told indianexpress.com that Naveen Kumar, an electrician, had borrowed his friend’s Honda Activa for a few days since his mother was not keeping well. Kumar was on his way home in the rain when he lost balance and fell into the stream around 6.30 pm.

The body has been sent to the Osmania General Hospital mortuary for post-mortem. A case of man missing registered earlier is being changed to a case of unnatural death under section 174 CrPC.

Bhagwat said he would apprise the municipal corporation about the issue of the safety of people living near the lake, and also work towards an ex-gratia to the family of the deceased from the government.