India, May 4 -- Scores of residents of Prateek Grand Society in Siddharth Vihar staged a protest on Friday evening after a decades-old drain belonging to the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation breached, leading to severe waterlogging in the basements of the high-rise and leaving dozens of vehicles submerged. The protest, which drew the attention of the district administration, followed hours of disruption with lifts shut down, seniors and children stranded on upper floors, and residents forced to arrange private towing services to retrieve their cars and two-wheelers.

The breached drain, with an estimated capacity of 30 million litres per day (MLD), carries stormwater from Vijay Nagar and Pratap Vihar through Siddharth Vihar before merging ...