Kandivli resident and third year BMS student of BK Shroff College, Kandivli, Ishwar Singh drowned in a lake in Nainital on Monday, where he'd gone for a nine-day trip with his college friends. Ishwar, 21, supposedly went into the lake shirtless as part of a 'challenge' to see who could survive in the near-freezing waters. However, his family has cried foul, claiming that he would not have voluntarily entered the lake because he didn't know how to swim.

The principal of BK Shroff college of arts and MH Shroff college of commerce, Dr. Lily Bhushan, told mid-day that 115 students and eight professors had gone for a trip to Haridwar, Nainital and Mussoorie.