India, Feb. 16 -- A three-year-old boy was killed after he slipped into a water-filled pit along Dalelgarh village road in Dalelgarh, Greater Noida, on Saturday, police said on Monday.

Days earlier, residents had flagged concerns about persistent waterlogging to the Greater Noida Authority in a letter dated February 4, a copy of which has been accessed by HT.

The deceased, a resident of Sikandrabad in Uttar Pradesh, was visiting his maternal grandfather's house in Dankaur's Dalelgarh village.

"The boy's maternal grandfather was observing a 45-day religious meditation. To mark the completion of this period, the family organised a feast at the temple, and the boy, along with his family, had come to attend it," president of the Dalelgarh ...