India, Feb. 8 -- Around 20-25 people gathered around the pit to take photographs of the fallen man and the motorbike on their mobile phones, but not one made an effort to rescue the victim or call the police, said 32-year-old Shivani, a passerby who was the first to call the police about the 25-year-old.

She said that upon discovering the man, banking telecaller Kamal Dhyani, and his motorcycle lying inside the pit dug by the Delhi Jal Board in west Delhi's Janakpuri on Friday morning, she pleaded others for help, but to no avail.

"I constantly pleaded with them to call the police for help. But they turned a deaf ear to my request and continued taking videos and photographs. Being a mother, I thought the man's mother must be waiting for...