Delhi resident drowns in pool during party in Ggm, 4 booked

HT Correspondent

GURUGRAM: A man from Delhi allegedly drowned in a swimming pool in an inebriated state during a party in Bandhwari village, Gwal Pahari on Sunday, police said on Monday.

Police identified the man as Tejpal Singh (33), and said he was attending the party with three of his friends when the incident took place. According to Sanjeev Kumar, assistant commissioner of police (DLF), four people — three of Tejpal’s friends and the swimming pool owner — have been booked for negligence causing death. “No one has been arrested yet, and investigation is underway,” he said.

Police said Tejpal’s friends picked him up from his residence at Sultanpur in Fatehpur Beri in a car at around 11am on Sunday. Then, at around 6pm, they called one of Tejpal’s relatives to say that he drowned in the pool, and that they were taking him to a hospital in Mandi.

When Tejpal’s family reached Mandi, they found him unconscious in a car. According to them, all his friends were inebriated at the time. Tejpal was then rushed to a private hospital in Gurugram Sector 43, where doctors declared him dead.

An FIR has been registered under sections 304A (causing death by negligence) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.

Tejpal’s older brother, Hoshiyar Singh, alleged that Tejpal’s friends assaulted and killed him. According to him, there were injury marks on Tejpal’s body. Hoshiyar said that the friends did not call the family, and instead rang a relative to report the incident. When the family reached the hospital in Mandi, as informed by the friends, they were nowhere to be found. It was only after they were called again that the suspects could be located.

“The victim’s friends wasted time in rushing him to hospital, which was negligence,” inspector Dinesh Kumar, SHO of DLF Phase 1 police station said.