Civic body chief officer falls into drainage line

Surat: A video with a message claiming that officials and officer-bearers of Navsari-Vijalpore municipality fell into a drainage line filled with water during inspection went viral on Wednesday.
However, the officer bearers claimed that only the chief officer and few local workers fell in the drain while one of them got inside to rescue others.
In the video, four persons are seen standing in the drainage water in Meghwal Society while a group of people around them is trying to pull them out.
In the video, faces of none are clear but the video claimed that municipality chief officer Dashrath Gohil, president Jigish Shah and Mukesh Agarwal, president of ruling party, plunged inside during an inspection visit to examine water logging situation after heavy rain due to cyclone Tauktae on Tuesday.

TOI tried to contact Gohil, but he was not available for comment. Shah, however, said, "The slab of a drainage line sank in and the chief officer and few local workers fell in. To rescue them I immediately jumped in and helped others come out."
Agarwal too claimed that he was helping those who fell in the water to come out. "I did not fall in and I was helping those who fell to come out.”