Sonepat: Engineer slips in river during rituals, untraced

Mukesh Tandon

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Tribune News Service

Sonepat, September 28

A software engineer working with Infosys, Sandeep Gautam (30), reportedly slipped and fell in the Yamuna river at Mimarpur ghat in Sonepat district on Sunday and was yet to be traced even after about 60 hours.

His family members rued they had to run from pillar to post to get support from the authorities. Finally, a joint team of divers of the NDRF and the state police, besides private divers, looked out for him but to no avail.

His wife Manisha said she, along with Sandeep and her mother-in-law Nirmala Devi, had gone to the Mimarpur ghat on Sunday to perform some rituals. Sandeep, posted in Faridabad as a senior consultant in Infosys, was to leave for Canada on October 1 for two years. “As Sandeep went into the Yamuna to perform rituals, he slipped and fell in the river,” she added.

“The incident occurred between 8.30 and 8.40 am. We immediately informed the police but they reached as late as 1.30 pm,” alleged Manisha. “We sought help from the administration and made a call to the Chief Minister’s Office. It is only then that we got help from the administration and they called the NDRF team,” she said.

“Sandeep knows swimming, he might have managed to come out of the river,” said Manisha.

ASI Kuldeep, Incharge, Mimarpur police post, said, “Two boats of civil administration, two boats of the NDRF, deep divers of the NDRF, divers of the Haryana police and even private deep divers are looking out for him. We have also informed the Delhi police.”