Noida, Jan. 21 -- Police arrested a builder on Tuesday days after 27-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta allegedly died after his car plunged into a water-filled pit of a vacant under-construction plot in Noida's Sector 150.

MZ Wiztown Planner Pvt Ltd promoter Abhay Kumar was arrested from the Sector 150 area, police said.

This comes after police on Sunday filed a case of culpable homicide against developers Lotus Greens Construction Pvt Ltd and MZ Wiztown Planners Pvt Ltd under sections 105 (culpable homicide), 106 (causing death by negligence) and 125 (act endangering life) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Earlier, the firms named in the FIR offered conflicting defences.

A spokesperson of Lotus Greens had said it had "no role to ...