The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday formed a high-level committee to investigate the death of three IAS aspirants at a coaching centre in Delhi due to flooding of the basement.
“The committee will inquire into the reasons, fix responsibility, suggest measures and recommend policy changes,” a ministry spokesperson said in a post on X.
The members of the panel included an additional secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Principal Secretary (Home) of Delhi government, Special CP of Delhi Police and a fire advisor.
The panel will submit its report in 30 days, the ministry said.
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Three civil services aspirants died after a library housed in the basement of the coaching centre got inundated and reportedly led to the failure of the single biometric entry and exit point.
Police have arrested seven persons in connection with the incident. Among them, the five accused—Tejinder Singh, Parvinder Singh, Harvinder Singh and Sarabjeet Singh, the four co-owners of the basement of the Rau’s IAS Study Circle at Old Rajinder Nagar, and the driver of a car, Manuj Kathuria—were sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a Delhi court on Monday.
The incident has sparked widespread protests and demonstrations in Delhi. It was also raised in both houses of Parliament on Monday, with heated debates being witnessed and demands made for accountability to be fixed.
If the BJP MPs trained their guns on the AAP government in Delhi, the Congress members attacked both the BJP-ruled Centre and the AAP regime in Delhi for their failure to regulate the coaching centres and for the lapses in urban planning in the national capital.
