NEW DELHI: A person fell into a 40-feet deep borewell dug at the Delhi Jal Board office in the Keshopur Mandi area on the dead night of Sunday, prompting multiple agencies to initiate a rescue operation.
The rescue efforts are being led by teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Delhi Fire Services (DFS).
According to a Delhi Police official, a PCR call was received at Vikaspuri police station, around 1 am, regarding a person falling into a borewell at the DJB plant in west Delhi's Keshopur Mandi area.
"The local police as well as Fire Brigade reached the place of incident. The NDRF team has also been called to the spot. Efforts are being made to take the person out," Deputy Commissioner of Police (west) Vichitra Veer said.
The police said the person who fell into the borewell was yet to be identified
For more than 8 hours, the rescue agency tried different methods to pull up the person from the borewell but they could not succeed. This morning, a team of NDRF reached the spot and after due deliberations, they planned to rescue the person by digging a new parallel borewell.
"Five fire tenders were rushed to the spot. We later received a message from our officials that a man had fallen into a 40-foot-deep borewell," DFS chief Atul Garg said.
"NDRF has begun digging a new borewell. This is a lengthy process so one DFS team will be staying at the scene," he added.
Delhi Minister Atishi has also reached the spot to take stock of the situation.
She took to X (formerly Twitter) and wrote, "An incident of a person falling into a borewell has come to light in Keshopur. After reaching the spot, I inspected the situation. Rescue work is going on here by NDRF and Jal Board. The borewell was in a locked room. Prima facie it seems that an attempt was made to enter here by breaking the lock by force. Police will investigate it. To ensure that such cases do not repeat, strict orders have been given to the Jal Board that all private and government borewells lying closed in Delhi should be sealed by welding within 48 hours and a report should be submitted to me."
BJP's West Delhi Lok Sabha candidate Kamaljeet Sehrawat, district president Raj Kumar Grover and senior party leader Rajiv Babbar have also reached the mishap site.
(Earlier it was reported that a child fell into the 40-ft-deep borewell)