On Monday night at the Training Institute in South Delhi, a party was conducted. Near the swimming pool at the training center, a woman started to drown and a young Indian Administrative Service officer jumped into the pool to save his colleague. Trying to save the woman he drowned and died.
30 year old, Ashish Dahiya was with 25 civil service batch mates at the Foreign Service Institute when the incident occurred. Ashish’s family has asked for an investigation to be done into his death as their son was a good swimmer.
The group was celebrating their last day of training for the Indian Foreign Services. They all decided to go for a swim at the institute’s pool and the police suspect they were drinking.
A witness reported that a woman officer accidentally slipped into the pool and Ashish along with a few more officers jumped into the pool to save her. They successfully pulled her out but then realized Ashish was still in the water. Then they noticed his unconscious body floating in the water.
The officers called a medical officer who tried to revive him with CPR and then rushed him to the hospital where he was declared dead at 1:00 A.M. The Police arrived the location minutes after Ashish was taken to the hospital by his colleagues.
Ishwar Singh, a senior police officer reported, “It looks like a case of death due to drowning, we can’t comment on foul play until a postmortem is done.”
