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Three IAS aspirants, Shreya Yadav, Tanya Soni, and Navin Dalwin, died in a flooded basement at Rau's IAS Study Circle. The incident caused student protests, blaming the MCD for negligence. In response, officials sealed 13 illegal coaching centers in Old Rajinder Nagar.
The Delhi High Court, on Wednesday, issued a notice in response to a petition filed by the father of Navin Dalwin, one of the IAS aspirants who drowned, challenging the grant of bail to owner Abhishek Gupta. The Rouse Avenue Court had granted bail to the CEO, Abhishek Gupta, and the coaching coordinator, Deshpal Singh, on September 23. Additionally, the bail granted to Abhishek Gupta was further extended on December 7.
The Bench presided over by Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma scheduled the matter for hearing on January 21, 2025.
Previously, Suresh Dalwin through Advocate Abhijit Anand had approached the High Court contending that ‘CBI has not interrogated a single officer’.
Background:
Students had approached the High Court, seeking the establishment of a high-level committee to investigate the deaths of these civil aspirants.
During the hearing, the bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela questioned the police regarding the reasons for arresting a passerby driver. The bench expressed dismay over the government's actions, noting that the government was shifting blame for such incidents without any particular authority taking accountability.
However, in an unusual turn of events, the Tis Hazari Court denied bail to the SUV driver on the same day. Judicial Magistrate Vinod Kumar noted that the allegations against the SUV driver were serious, observing that CCTV footage showed him driving the vehicle on an already waterlogged road at high speed, causing a large displacement of water. The court further observed that the gate of the premises gave way, allowing water to enter the basement, resulting in the loss of three innocent lives.
However, the driver was soon discharged after the police decided to drop the harsher charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Later, the high court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate the deaths of three civil aspirants who were drowned after the casement of a coaching center was flooded.
The high court, thereafter, granted interim bail to the owners of the basement involved in the tragic flooding incident. The court directed the basement owners to pay 5 crores to the Red Cross Society. The amount is to be ‘used for the student welfare and for the purpose of streamlining the functioning of coaching centers in Delhi’.
[Inputs: ANI]
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