27-year-old software engineer drowns in swimming pool

A 27-year-old software engineer died three days after he was found drowned in fifteen feet deep water at a swimming pool in Bangalore.

Police said Smruthi Ranjan Sharma, a senior design engineer with a software company in Bangalore, had enrolled himself for a summer camp in swimming to overcome his aquaphobia.

A resident of J P Nagar in Bangalore, Sharma was regular at the swimming camp being held at Jayanagar pool from 8.45 pm every night. On Wednesday, Sharma was last seen practicing strokes at the shallow end of the pool.

But, minutes later, a doctor, who was at the pool, noticed that he had drowned in the deep end of the pool. Immediately, he was pulled out of the pool and given a Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation before rushing him to a private hospital.

But, the hospital authorities said Sharma was brought brain dead. After battling for nearly three days, the techie sufferred a massive cardiac arrest and died on Saturday, police said.

The police have registered a case of negligence against the swimming coach Nataraj and arrested him.