{"id":33233,"date":"2026-07-10T01:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/man-26-drowns-in-najafgarh-school-pool-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:23:40","slug":"man-26-drowns-in-najafgarh-school-pool-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/man-26-drowns-in-najafgarh-school-pool-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 26, drowns in Najafgarh school pool | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-47529300,imgsize-110164,width-400,height-225,resizemode-75\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"Man, 26, drowns in Najafgarh school pool\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: A 26-year-old man died after allegedly drowning in a swimming pool at a school in southwest Delhi\u2019s Najafgarh Wednesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>The deceased, Rahul Rai, a resident of Jharoda village in southwest Delhi, packed cartons at a private company owned by his friend. <!-- -->Doctors at a private hospital declared him brought dead when the police arrived there.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>A case of negligence has been registered, and a probe is on to ascertain whether adequate safety measures were present at the time of the incident.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Rahul had gone swimming in Bholi Ram Public School\u2019s pool with his friends Suraj Singh, Tarun Kumar and Bhavishya. Police said the group had paid an entry fee of Rs 650 to use the facility. <!-- -->\u201cRahul drowned around 5.30pm while swimming. His friends alerted the pool staff, following which he was rushed to the hospital,\u201d a senior police officer said. TOI approached the school for comment, but it made no response.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Police said a team is examining CCTV footage to establish the exact sequence of events leading to Rahul\u2019s drowning. They are also verifying whether a lifeguard was on duty as required, and whether they had ventured into the deep end of the pool when the incident took place.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Police suspect no foul play at this stage. The post-mortem report is awaited.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/man-26-drowns-in-najafgarh-school-pool\/articleshow\/132296094.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A 26-year-old man died after allegedly drowning in a swimming pool at a school in southwest Delhi\u2019s Najafgarh Wednesday.The deceased, Rahul Rai, a resident of Jharoda village in southwest Delhi, packed cartons at a private company owned by his friend. Doctors at a private hospital declared him brought dead when the police arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}