Negligence on part of the administration of GDA-owned Chandra Nagar Recreational Club in Ghaziabad took the lives of two students of a private engineering college on Tuesday night. Prateek Singhal (22) and Utkarsh Arya (22), both B.Tech final year students, drowned in a swimming pool on the premises of Chandra Nagar Recreational Club, police said on Wednesday.
About a dozen students of the engineering college had gone to the club for a party. The club is being run by a private operator. A case has been registered against the club operator. Prateek belonged to Kosi Kalan in Mathura, while Utkarsh Arya came from Allahabad.
Police said that during a late night party in the club Utkarsh slipped into the swimming pool. As Prateek tried to save him, he too slipped into the pool and drowned along with Utkarsh.
As there was no life-saving equipment available at the swimming pool, the efforts of the organisers to save the two students were abortive. later the two students were rushed to a nearby Delhi-based Cross Mall Hospital, where they were declared brought dead. The organisers of the party informed the institute and the parents of the students.
The post-mortem will be conducted in Delhi thereafter the bodies will be handed over to the family members of the victims, said the police. “A case has been registered against the club operators. We are waiting for the outcome of the post-mortem report,” said CO II Atul Yadav.