The tragic deaths of three civil services aspirants in the basement of Rau's IAS Study circle located in Delhi's Old Rajendra Nagar have aroused intense public anger. The students continued to stage protests in the early hours of Monday, calling for justice and decisive government action.
Here are the top 10 updates:
- The Delhi Police formed multiple teams to probe the actual cause of the incident. Over 35 people were trapped in the basement on Saturday evening when water began gushing into the basement following heavy rains, according to a senior official privy to the investigation.
- On Sunday, Delhi police arrested the owner and the coordinator of the coaching centre and charged them with culpable homicide and other charges.
- The investigation revealed two main reasons for the incident: the first was failure of civic authorities to clear the roadside drain before the onset of the monsoon, and the other was the lack of a drainage system in the basement to flush out water.
- According to senior police officials, though the basement gate was closed, it got damaged when water gushed in at a high pressure.
- According to officials, the three-storey coaching institute had permission to use the basement for parking and storage, but it was illegally being used as a library.
Locals suggested that the drains in the area were heavily clogged with silt, while MCD officials blamed encroachers for covering drains that drain out stormwater.
(With inputs from agencies)
