India, Feb. 7 -- The death of 25-year-old Kamal Dhyani, who plunged into an open sewer excavation pit in Janakpuri, has exposed a fatal disconnect between official safety mandates and their implementation on the ground, revealing how repeated warnings issued after a similar recent tragedy in Noida were systematically ignored.

Dhyani's body was discovered around 8am on Friday by morning walkers.

The incident is starkly similar to one in Noida on January 17, where a 27-year-old software engineer died after his car fell into a water-filled excavation pit. That death had led to nationwide outrage and, in Delhi, it had prompted a flurry of safety directives from multiple civic agencies in the city. But Friday's accident appears to show that ...