Overview

• On July 23, Amit Kishore’s Mercedes GLA 200D stalled for nearly two hours in waterlogged depths on the Sahibabad–Vasundhara road and required a crane tow to a Noida service centre at a cost of about ₹5 lakh.
• His legal notice, served last week, attributes the damage to neglected drains, illegal encroachments and inadequate monsoon preparedness, and demands full repair compensation and urgent clearing of local drainage.
• Municipal Commissioner Vikramaditya Malik has challenged the claim, citing no expert certification of waterlogging as the cause and noting that no similar breakdowns were reported elsewhere.
• Local residents and social media voices, including long-time Vasundhara resident Roy Tapan Bharti, have rallied behind Kishore, highlighting chronic flooding from clogged drains and encroachments.
• Kishore now awaits the corporation’s written response before the 15-day deadline, warning that failure to comply will trigger a PIL in the high court, a Lokayukta corruption probe and a civil suit in what would be Ghaziabad’s first citizen-led infrastructure liability case.