Noida, Jan. 20 -- For 26-year-old Moninder Singh, his regret at not being able to save the 27-year-old who drowned in a water-filled pit on a plot in Noida's Sector 150 is tinged with indignation.

"Everyone was saying that if you had come around five minutes earlier, Yuvraj Mehta could have been saved," the Flipkart delivery executive who lives barely 2 km from the accident spot and works in the area, told HT on Monday. "My question is: Am I a policeman, a firefighter, or an emergency service employee?

"I was passing by. I saw the accident and I jumped in, without wasting time. But the biggest regret of my life is that I couldn't save the person who was screaming for help for nearly 90 minutes," said Singh.

Mehta, a software engineer d...