Team News Riveting
New Delhi, July 28
The Delhi Police on Sunday detained the owner and coordinator of renowned Rau’s IAS Study Circle where three students died due to flooding in the basement following heavy rains.
They have been booked them under charges of culpable homicide among other charges, they said. “We have registered an offence at Rajinder Nagar Police Station under sections 105 (culpable homicide), 106(1) (death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide), 115(2) (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 290 (negligent conduct with respect to pulling down, repairing or constructing buildings) and 35 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and launched an investigation. So far, we have detained two people — owner and coordinator of the coaching centre,” Deputy Commissioner of Police M Harsha Vardhan said.
“Search and rescue operation ended. Total three bodies were recovered from the basement. All were identified and we have informed the family members about the incident,” the DCP said. The three victims have been identified as Tania Soni, Shreya Yadav, both 25, and Navin Delvin, 28.
The death of three civil service aspirants due to waterlogging in the basement of the coaching centre has sparked a massive protest by students. The institute’s library was in the basement of the building, and there was only one entry-exit. The area where the library has been set up was sanctioned as storage in the civic body’s record. This basement was flooded following a downpour yesterday. At the time, there were at least 20 students in the library.
Paramilitary forces have been called in to keep the situation under control as the students accuse municipal authorities of negligence.
The protesting students, meanwhile, have hit out at civic authorities. “If this is the situation after 30 minutes of rain, who is responsible? No one has come to talk to us or given us any assurance. Who will fix responsibility?” a protester said.
