After three civil service aspirants perished as a result of flooding in the basement of a coaching center in Delhi’s Old Rajendra Nagar on Saturday evening, outraged students staged an overnight protest outside the institute, which is currently ongoing.
On Sunday morning, images from the scene showed students sitting on a road outside Rau’s IAS Study Circle, holding signs reading, ‘We want justice.’
#WATCH | Delhi: Students continue to protest outside the coaching institute where three students lost their lives after the basement of the institute was filled with water yesterday pic.twitter.com/8JGEZ9Rl7o
— ANI (@ANI) July 28, 2024
A disgruntled IAS candidate lashed out at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), calling the affair a ‘disaster.’
“MCD says it is a disaster, but I would say that this is complete negligence. Knee-deep water gets logged in half an hour of rain. A ‘disaster’ is something that happens sometimes. My landlord told me that he had been asking the councillor for the last 10–12 days that drainage must be cleaned,” he stated in an interview with a media source.
“The first demand is that action should be taken against the culprits. The immediate demand is that the actual number of deaths and injuries should be put out,” the protesting IAS student added.
कल रात राजेंद्र नगर में हुई दर्दनाक दुर्घटना पर मंत्री @AtishiAAP जी ने दिल्ली के मुख्य सचिव को इस घटना की जांच शुरू करने और 24 घंटे के भीतर रिपोर्ट देने का निर्देश दिया है। pic.twitter.com/S438FDx9Xq
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) July 28, 2024
The incident from Saturday in details
According to authorities, around 7 p.m., the fire department received a call of waterlogging inside the coaching center, prompting a rescue effort.
“There were around 30 students when the flooding began. While a few managed to escape the site, 13-14 students were rescued and taken to a hospital. A criminal case has been registered over the deaths of the three aspirants and two people have been detained,” a police official stated.
The event claimed the lives of a male aspirant and two female students.
In the Patel Nagar neighborhood of the national capital on July 22, a second student, also aspiring to the civil service, was shocked to death after coming into contact with an iron gate in the midst of a downpour.
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