Delhi Coaching Centre Had No Drainage System In Basement Library Where 3 Students Drowned: FIR | Exclusive

The owner of the Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Rajinder Nagar, where three students were killed after the basement of the building flooded, could not produce documents related to the functioning of the library on the underground floor, read the First Information Report (FIR) filed by the Delhi Police on Sunday. News18 has accessed the FIR that also said that the owner, Abhishek Gupta, admitted that there was no water drainage system in the basement, where the library was functional.

The police on Sunday arrested Gupta and coordinator Deshpal Singh and booked them under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). They have been booked under sections 105, 106, 115 (2), 290 and 3(5) of the BNS. The charges included culpable homicide not amounting to murder; causing death by negligence; voluntarily causing hurt; negligent conduct with respect to pulling down, and repairing or constructing buildings. Section 3(5) reads that when a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if it were done by him alone. The FIR has been filed at the Rajender Nagar Thana under Central Delhi.

“Due to the lack of the drainage system, the rain water gets collected on road. The water on the road went into the basement that put the lives of the students in danger. On being asked, Abhishek Gupta, owner of the Rau’s IAS Study Centre, accepted that the basement did not have any draining system,” the FIR in Hindi reads.

It also said that Gupta was present in the building at the time of the incident. And when he was asked about the papers related to running the library at the basement, “he could not produce any document”, the FIR added.

The three-page FIR has said that Gupta, who stays in Gurugram, has been booked along with building management and those responsible for the drainage system. The FIR, signed by Head Constable Veena Chauhan, also said that the three students were brought dead to the hospital.

The incident took place at 6.35 pm on Saturday when the basement of the Rau’s IAS Study Circle was flooded and students got stuck in the library.

Three students killed in the incident were 21-year-old Tanya Soni from Telangana’s Mancherial; 22-year-old Shreya Yadav from Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh; and 28-year-old Nevin Davin from Kerala’s Ernakulam. The FIR also said that the family of the students have been informed.

According to the FIR, the police, on receiving the call, went to inspect the site and found that around three feet of water was there on the road and at the building’s parking at the ground level.

The Fire Department, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and ambulances reached the spot. The police were informed that some students were stuck in the library.

The Delhi Fire Department started pushing water with the help of a pump. Meanwhile, the NDRF divers started the search and rescue operations as well. It was during this search that they spotted the three students who were taken to city’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for examination where they were declared “brought dead”.