New Delhi, May 30, 2017: A young IAS officer hailing from Sonepat, Haryana was drowned in the swimming pool of Foreign Services Institute at Ber Serai here while saving a woman colleague.
Identified as Ashish Dahiya (30), he was the IAS officer of 2016-batch and belonged to J&K cadre.
According to eyewitnesses, the incident happened during a poolside party of the officers attending a training course at the institute.
A woman officer is learnt to have accidentally slipped into the pool. Many young officers including the deceased tried to save her.
Though the officers was saved but Dahiya could not come up. His body was soon discovered floating.
He was rushed to Fortis Hospital but was declared brought dead.
Investigation is on into the tragic incident.