India, April 10 -- The Delhi Police has alleged negligence and non-compliance with safety norms on the part of the three accused in the Janakpuri pit death case, wherein a 25-year-old man fell into a freshly dug pit along with his motorbike on the intervening night of February 5 and 6, but was only discovered by a passerby the next morning.

In their 877-page charge sheet filed in Dwarka court on Tuesday, the police named three persons associated with a company contracted by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for working on the pit project. They are Himanshu Gupta, 45, the suspended director of KKSPUN Pvt India Ltd, Rajesh Kumar Prajapati, 47, the subcontractor working on the project, and Yogesh Kishor, 23, a labourer on site, who allegedly tried ...