In a tragic incident, a youth lost his life when his motorcycle plunged into a deep, unsecured pit dug by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in Delhi’s Janakpuri late Thursday night. 25-year-old Kamal Dhyani, a resident of Vikaspuri, was returning home from office late at night when the incident occurred on Joginder Singh Marg.
Dhyani worked at HDFC Bank’s call centre in Rohini Sector 10. He had left home in the evening and was returning late at night after 11 PM. He had called his family after leaving office in the night, saying that he will reach home in 10-15 minutes. But he didn’t arrive. When the family called back, the phone was ringing but there was no response.
Family members and friends launched a frantic search for him after that. They also visited several police stations in the area, but claimed they received little help initially. They said that the police said a missing person report can be filed only on the next day. However, cops at one police station were helpful, and they shared the last known phone location of Kamal Dhyani with the family. The family and friends searched the area, but didn’t find him or his Apache RTR 200 bike.
In the morning today, the police found Kamal’s body with the motorcycle lying in the bottom of the deep pit. The police informed the family, and recovered Dhyani’s body and motorcycle from the 17-foot-deep excavation site. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead on arrival. The pit, part of a DJB line rehabilitation project, had been dug just two days prior and lacked proper barricades, lighting, or warning signs, according to witnesses and officials.
While it was presumed that Dhyani might have lost control of the motorcycle and fallen into the unmarked pit, a friend’s version has raised suspicions of foul play in the incident. Talking to the ANI, the friend said that when the police asked to search for Kamal in a 200-meter-diameter area around the last known location, they thoroughly searched the area. They had also checked the same pit at around 1 AM, but it was empty at that time, Kamal and his bike were not there.
#WATCH | Delhi | The deceased's friend says, "… I had talked to him last night when he had reached the District Centre. He was just 15 minutes from home… An hour later, when he didn't reach home, we came to the District Centre. He wasn't picking up our calls. His bike was… https://t.co/pdXyhZZaLd pic.twitter.com/pvAyRGNR9t
— ANI (@ANI) February 6, 2026
He said they don’t understand how the body and the bike ended up in the pit after they checked it. The friend demanded that the police check the CCTVs in the area to know whether Kamal fell on his own or if it was it a murder. The friend also accused the police of not being proactive enough in searching for Kamal at night. He said that had police located Kamal with the help of his phone, he could have been rescued before his death.
It is notable that the visuals of the site show that Kamal was wearing a helmet, and the bottom of the pit is muddy, raising the question of how he died after falling in it. Police have launched an investigation into the incident to determine the exact circumstances and also to fix responsibility.
In the meantime, the Delhi government has suspended three Delhi Jal Board engineers – an Executive Engineer, an Assistant Engineer and a Junior Engineer – for keeping the pit open and unmarked. Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Verma visited the site earlier in the day. A probe committee has also been formed to inspect the accident site, review safety arrangements, check compliance with norms, and fix responsibility for any lapses. The team will include the concerned District Magistrate, SDM Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Deputy Commissioner of Police, senior officers from the Public Works Department (PWD), and other senior officials.
This incident took place a month after a similar case in Noida last month, where techie Yuvraj Mehta drowned after his car fell into a water-filled deep pit at a construction site.
