Ghaziabad, May 6 -- The Uttar Pradesh Avas Vikas Parishad (UP Housing and Development Board) has lodged an FIR against the developer of Prateek Grand, a luxury residential complex in Siddharth Vihar, after a breach in a municipal drain-allegedly triggered by negligent construction by the high-rise developer-caused severe flooding in the basements of occupied towers on Friday.

Officials said that around 30 million litres per day (MLD) of drain water, flowing through an old brick-lined channel maintained by the Ghaziabad municipal corporation, gushed into the basements after the drain breached, reportedly due to excavation work being carried out at an under-construction section of the high-rise project.

AK Mittal, superintending engineer ...