Man drowns in Badi lake | Body not found

A man drowned in Badi Lake yesterday morning at around 11 am. A team of rescue divers tried their best to find the body but returned with no success. The divers blamed not availability of proper equipment for not being able to trace the body.

Old RTO resident Ladu Ram s/o Mana Ram Gameti had gone to Badi lake yesterday morning with his friends Dharmendra, Ramesh and Om Prakash. All of them entered the water for taking a bath when Ladu entered deep waters and started drowning. His friends panicked at the scene. While Dharmendra and Ramesh fled from the scene, Om Prakash went to Police station and informed Police about the entire incident.

Team from Nai Police station reached the spot. Three divers were employed to search for the body. After searching the entire day, the divers finally called off the search at 6pm. The divers were searching only with a tube, boat and elementary equipment. The eye-witnesses said that the diving team did not have proper equipment. They would take a dive, search and come back to surface. The divers finally called of saying that they have done all they could and now would wait for lake to throw the body back to the surface.