Noida, Jan. 20 -- For 26-year-old Moninder Singh, his regret at not being able to save the 27-year-old 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 2km 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 who said he was out on a delivery when he passed by the accident spot. "I told the personnel that I would enter the water. They asked if I knew how to swim, and then handed me a life jacket," Singh said. "After 30 minutes of search in dense fog and cold water, I was unable to locate him." Singh said most of the policemen had life jackets and other safety equipment. "They could have reached the spot but instead waited for the State Disaster Response Force, which arrived around 4:30am. Later, I came to know that the body was recovered after 7pm." Gurinder Singh, a truck driver who met with an accident at the spot fortnight ago, said, "I was transporting steel bars to Punjab when I broke through the boundary wall. My truck stopped at the plot's edge, and locals rescued me. Officers were also present at the time, but they (locals) made a lot of effort to rescue me." Police, however, denied to have received any request for barricades or signage at the spot....