Porni Banerjee | ২৮ জুলাই ২০২৪ ১২ : ৩৬Porni Banerjee

The owner and coordinator of Rau’s IAS Study Centre in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar area were arrested on Sunday after three students died there due to heavy flooding in the basement.

Owner Abhishek Gupta and coordinator Deshpal Singh have been booked under charges of culpable homicide and negligence. The bodies of the deceased that were recovered included those of two female students and one male student.

“We have registered an FIR 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.

The victims have been identified as Tania Soni (25), Shreya Yadav (25), and Nevin Dalwin (28).

Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi called for strict action against those coaching centres that are operating from basement, and said that construction of such buildings is not in accordance with the existing norms.

The Delhi mayor had also instructed to conduct an enquiry to verify if any officers of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) are responsible for the tragedy.

Meanwhile, the Fire Department said the coaching centre was issued a no-objection certificate (NOC), stating that the basement was supposed to be used for storage purposes only. It added that the department will write to the Deputy Commissioner of Police and MCD asking to initiate immediate action against the study centre.

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