Noida, Jan. 21 -- A 26-year-old delivery executive - a key eyewitness to techie Yuvraj Mehta's death apart from his father - alleged that police officers pressured him to stay away from the media for 10 days.

"I was called to the police station and they forcefully recorded another video of me after giving me a script," Moninder Singh told HT on Tuesday, adding, "I was forced to sit in a park close to the police station for more than four-and-a-half hours."

Twenty-seven-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta drowned after his car plunged into a water-filled excavation pit on a vacant plot in Sector 150 of Greater Noida, triggering widespread outrage over civic lapses and the delay in rescue efforts. The pit, allegedly dug for a building...