New Delhi: Five more have been arrested in connection with the UPSC coaching center case where three students died due to inundation in the institute’s lower floor of the institute
Those arrested include the owners of the basement and an individual who drove a vehicle that appears to have broken into the gate of the building. With these arrests, the total number of persons arrested in the case has gone up to seven, Delhi Police said in a statement.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) terminated a junior engineer and suspended an assistant engineer.
Meanwhile, students of Rau’s IAS Study Circle and other institutes have expressed their anger over the incident, highlighted safety norms against natural calamities’ violations at coaching centers across the city, and raised questions over the “negligence” of the Delhi government as well.
Many students also held a protests and raised slogans against authorities outside the coaching center over the deaths in the basement.
On July 27, three students allegedly died and several got trapped, after a nearby outpour led to flooding in the basement of a UPSC coaching institute in Old Rajinder Nagar.
Videos of the area showed Rau’s IAS Study Circle in old Rajinder Nagar completely flooded, with rescuers struggling to draw off the water.
