Greater Noida:, July 27 -- A day after a six-year-old boy drowned in an open water-filled pit in a residential society in Knowledge Park 2, three people were arrested, including two officials of the Greater Noida Authority's water department, said police.

"The contractor, a 53-year-old resident of Crossing Republik in Ghaziabad, was arrested for negligence on Sunday," Ravi Shankar Nim, deputy commissioner of police, Greater Noida told HT.

Later, police said a supervisor (26), a resident of Bulandshahr, and a technical supervisor (35), a resident of Ghaziabad had also been arrested.

Earlier, in a media statement issued on Sunday morning, the Greater Noida Authority said the contractor company had been "blacklisted", and the water depart...