Biker's body recovered from drain

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: Police and rescue personnel on Sunday morning recovered the body of the food delivery executive two days after he fell into a stormwater drain allegedly after hitting a road divider near Rajarajeshwari Nagar in the city.

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Hemanth Kumar, 26, a resident of Bapujinagar in Bengaluru. The incident took place on Friday night around 11 pm when Hemanth was returning from work.

As he was allegedly speeding near the Jnanabharathi Metro Station, he lost his balance and hit the median, and due to the impact, fell into a four-foot-wide storm-water drain.

After being alerted, the jurisdictional police along with fire officials reached the spot and launched a search operation to locate his body. Despite searching for over twenty hours across two-three kilometres in the area, the body could not be found following which the police took Hemanth's bike to the police station.

When the search operation resumed on Sunday morning, the police found Hemanth's body floating in the rajakaluve and fished it out with the help of the rescue personnel. The body was taken to Victoria Hospital for the requisite postmortem analysis.

Earlier, the family of the deceased executive had filed a missing report at Jnanabharathi Police Station. The jurisdictional Traffic police then registered a case of ‘self-accident’ over the matter.