India, July 27 -- A contractor was arrested on Sunday after a six-year-old boy drowned in a water-filled pit dug for boring work at Kaladham Colony in Greater Noida, where the child was playing with other children near the unguarded excavation on Saturday evening at around 7 pm, police said.

The boy, identified as Avyaan Surya, fell into the water-filled pit and was pulled out by family members, who rushed him to a nearby hospital. Doctors declared him dead on arrival. The victim was playing cricket with his friends when he fell into the pit at the Kaladham Society, a colony for artists. The pit was dug by the Greater Noida Authority for boring work and was filled with water.

The contractor responsible for the boring work was arrested o...