Rescue efforts are underway after a man fell down a 40-foot-deep borewell at a Delhi Jal Board treatment plant in the Keshopur Mandi region late last night. Four Delhi Fire Services engines are on the scene, with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) leading the rescue operation. Authorities were first informed that a child had fallen into the borewell in Keshopur, but it was subsequently discovered that it was a man stuck within. His identity is still to be determined.
Delhi Water Minister Atishi, who arrived at the treatment facility in the morning, said the borewell was in a sealed chamber and stressed that it was not a child, but an adult who was trapped within.
Speaking with ANI, Atishi stated: "This will be an issue of police investigation because this person is not a child, he is an adult. The intentionality and criminality behind this will be a matter of investigation. All the officials of the Delhi Jal Board have been given strict orders that action will be taken against whoever is responsible for the safety of this particular borewell. We have also ordered the sealing of all abandoned borewells in Delhi in the next 48 hours."
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Earlier last month, a two-year-old son of an agricultural laborer who fell into a borewell in Gujarat's Jamnagar district was rescued following a nine-hour rescue drive. According to authorities, the child, Raj Vasava, slid into an abandoned borewell on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the agricultural field of Govind Karangiya in Govana village of Jamnagar's Lalpur Block, roughly 47 kilometers south of Jamnagar.
In another incident in January this year, a toddler who fell into an open borewell in Gujarat's Devbhumi Dwarka district was rescued following an eight-hour multi-agency operation, but she died before being taken to the hospital, according to persons acquainted with the case.