: A nine-year-old boy drowned allegedly after falling in a pit filled with water in Cantonment area here, police said on Sunday. On Saturday afternoon, Rahul, a resident of Shivnagar, went to graze goats but did not return home and his family started searching for him and later informed the police, they said. The boy, a student of class three at a primary school, reportedly drowned in a water-filled pit dug for a gas pipeline, about 200 metres away from the house, while he was grazing goats, they said. Around 9 am on Sunday, the minor’s neighbour Ram Prakash saw the boy’s body in the pit and informed his family, police said.