The three IAS aspirants who died in Delhi on Saturday evening after the basement of their coaching centre got flooded have been identified. Police said the deceased were from Kerala, Telangana and UP.
DCP Central M Harshavardhan told reporters that the deceased were Shreya Yadav, a native of Ambedkar Nagar district of UP, Tanya Soni, whose permanent address is Telangana and Nivin Dalwin, a resident of Kerala's Ernakulam. Police claim their relatives have been alerted.
However, a close relative of Shreya Yadav said he received no information officially, either from the coaching institute or administration.
"I saw it on the news and came here. I contacted the institute but they refused to give me the name of the deceased. I went to the mortuary to identify but they denied stating it was a police case. Then they showed me a paper where her (Shreya Yadav) name was written. I demand that a case of culpable homicide should be lodged against the owner of the coaching institute," the relative told ANI.
Meanwhile, the students held a protest and raised slogans against authorities outside the coaching centre over the deaths in the basement. They demanded that the authorities reveal the truth and details of the casualties.
#WATCH | Old Rajender Nagar Incident | Delhi: Students protest against the Delhi government, MCD and the coaching institute where three students lost their lives after the basement of the institute was filled with water yesterday pic.twitter.com/UtOGL0LBj8
— ANI (@ANI) July 28, 2024
Additional DCP Sachin Sharma spoke to the protesting students and assured them of action. "Three people have died. Why will we hide anything? We assure you that we will do whatever is legally possible. The investigation is on," Sharma added.
The police 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). "So far we have detained two people -- owner and coordinator of the coaching centre," Deputy Commissioner of Police M Harsha Vardhan told reporters.
#WATCH | Delhi: Outside visuals from the IAS coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar where three students lost their lives after the basement was filled with water yesterday. pic.twitter.com/6OjqL3hc0M
— ANI (@ANI) July 28, 2024
Meanwhile, the BJP hit out at AAP for the deaths, stating the corruption within the Municipal Corporation of Delhi was why the drains weren't cleaned on time.
"What has happened there is not a tragedy but murder. How was the library functioning in the basement? What happened to an investigation that was set up earlier? The people were continuously asking for the drainage to be cleaned, what were the AAP government and municipal authorities doing?," Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva said, while slamming the AAP for "destroying entire Delhi".
