Students are holding massive protests in Delhi’s Old Rajender Nagar area over the deaths of the three UPSC aspirants in a flooded basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle.
The bodies of the deceased were sent to the RML Hospital for an autopsy. The victims who died in the incident have been identified as Shreya Yadav, a native of Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni from Telangana; and Nivin Dalwin, a resident of Kerala’s Ernakulam, told DCP Central M Harshavardhan told ANI.
Students are demanding immediate action against the authorities over the incident. Meanwhile, on Sunday, several leaders from different political parties reached the scene.
CPI MP V Sivadasan, who was present at the protest site, spoke to ANI, saying coacing centres in Delhi conduct classes and set up a library in the basement without proper permission from the government. He also said that he spoke with the family members of the victim.
“We have visited the spot of the incident and spoke to the family members of the victim. The lack of police and safety audits is a serious issue. This incident should not have happened. There is no proper drainage system in Delhi,” he told ANI.
Further, he said, “Coaching owners here conduct classes and set up a library in the basement without taking proper permission from the government and it is illegal to do so. We demand a safety audit of all the coaching centres and strict rules should be made against them. The government is promoting all these illegal coaching centres as the officials and authorities are collecting a huge amount of money from these coaching owners.”
Meanwhile, Delhi police on Sunday arrested two persons, the owner and coordinator of the IAS coaching centre, where three students lost their lives after the basement of the institute was filled with water.
Expressing grief over the mishap, Dharmendra Yadav, uncle of one of the deceased, Shreya Yadav, also claimed somberly that he was not informed about the death of his niece by the coaching institute or the administration.
He said that he learned about Shreya’s death from the news and wasn’t even permitted to view her body at the mortuary.
Speaking to ANI, Dharmendra Yadav said, “I received no information officially, either from the coaching institute or administration. I saw the news and approached them, I went to the mortuary and asked them to show me the face for identification but they denied it, saying it was a police case. They showed me a paper where her (Shreya Yadav) name was written.”
“When the news of students being deceased started coming up, … I called the coaching institute, and they said we couldn’t tell the name but two causalities had happened,” he said.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan also expressed condolences over the deaths of the students.
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