India, Jan. 21 -- The death of a techie in Uttar Pradesh's Noida last weekend in a freak mishap has opened a can of worms, exposing safety lapses that were flagged earlier but never acted upon, and an alleged attempt by the police to cover up the incident, according to a witness.

Returning home from Haryana's Gurugram in the early hours of Saturday, 27-year-old Yuvraj Mehta was killed after his car skidded in dense fog, broke the drain boundary and fell into a deep, waterlogged pit dug for the basement of an under-construction commercial complex near a drain in Sector 150 of Noida.

A 26-year-old delivery executive a key witness to techie's death apart from his father has alleged that police officers pressured him to stay away from the m...