A day after the Santacruz Chembur Link Road (SCLR) was thrown open to the public, a pit dug under the flyover by BMC men, who had conveniently forgotten to fill it up — claimed a life when a six-year-old child fell in the water-filled pit and drowned.

Rita Devi, mother of the six-year-old Abhishek Jaiswal, at the spot under the SCLR (below), where he drowned. PIC/SAYED Sameer Abedi

Six-year-old Abhishek Jaiswal, son of a migrant labourer who resided with his family below the SCLR, went missing on Friday. His body was discovered by his father Surinder Jaiswal in the open, water-filled trench, running over 20 feet long and five feet deep.