LIVE | Coaching centre deaths: Delhi police form multiple probe teams
The three students who died in the flooding of the coaching centre's basement were from Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala
Delhi Police on Sunday (July 28) arrested the owner and coordinator of the coaching centre at Old Rajendra Nagar where three students died due to flooding, following heavy rains. It has formed multiple probe teams to figure out how the entire incident unfolded.
They have been identified as Abhishek Gupta, the owner of the coaching centre and Deshpal Singh, its coordinator. The duo has been booked for culpable homicide among other charges, police said.
"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," 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 officer said.
Shreya Yadav of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni from Telangana and Navin Dalwin from Ernakulam in Kerala were identified to have died in the incident, police said.
The three civil services aspirants died on Saturday after the basement of a building, which was part of a coaching centre, was flooded following heavy rain in central Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area.
Regarding how the basement got flooded so quickly that the students got no time to escape, a senior MCD official said street dwellers have encroached upon and covered the storm drains used to carry away the water accumulated during heavy rain. Reportedly, a drain burst on Saturday and led to the rapid flooding of the coaching centre's basement. It is not yet completely clear why the students did not get any time to climb out of the basement to safety.
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