New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- Raising serious questions over prolonged administrative inaction and environmental non-compliance, the National Green Tribunal has initiated suo motu proceedings over the drowning death of a software engineer in Noida's waterlogged trench at Sector 150, calling for responses from multiple state and local authorities.

In an order passed on Thursday, the Principal Bench of the Tribunal, headed by Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Expert Member A Senthil Vel, registered an Original Application based on a newspaper report titled "Noida CEO Removed CM orders SIT probe into techie's Drowning" published on January 20, 2026.

The Tribunal took note of the circumstances surrounding the death of Yuvraj Mehta, a soft...