LUCKNOW, July 14 -- Amid outrage over civic apathy and gaping holes in the rescue effort, the body of a 43-year-old daily wage painter, identified as Suresh, was found nearly 28 hours after he slipped into an uncovered and waterlogged drain in Lucknow's Thakurganj area at 7am on Saturday during heavy rainfall.

The body was recovered at 11 am on Sunday close to Shantinagar intersection in the vicinity of IIM Road, nearly a kilometre from the spot of the incident by a local cattle owner, even as the victim's family and local people alleged that multiple complaints about the drain were ignored by the authorities while the risk to others remained hours after the tragedy.

This is the second time in less than a year that an uncovered drain ha...