India, Feb. 8 -- A sub-contractor was on Saturday arrested in connection with the death of a 25-year-old bank telecaller who fell into an unsecured Delhi Jal Board (DJB) pit, investigators said, as it emerged that the man's body lay there for nearly eight hours and several people aware of the accident chose not to inform the police or authorities.

The sub-contractor, Rajesh Kumar Prajapati, was one of at least five people aware that Kamal Dhyani's motorcycle had plunged into the 4.5-metre-deep Janakpuri pit but concealed this knowledge from the police. The 47-year-old man has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Investigators are now trying to ascertain if Dhyani died soon after falling in, around 12.15am on Friday...