New Delhi, 07 August (HS). Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court has issued notice to the CBI while hearing the bail plea of four co-owners arrested in the case of the death of three students due to flood in Rao IAS Study Circle in Old Rajendra Nagar area. Principal District and Sessions Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna ordered the next hearing of the case on August 9.
During the hearing today, the CBI lawyer told the court that no FIR has been registered in the case yet. The process of registering the FIR is going on. It is noteworthy that on August 2, the Delhi High Court handed over the investigation of this case to the CBI. Earlier, the Sessions Court of Tis Hazari Court, while disposing of the bail plea of the four co-owners, had said that now this case has been transferred to the CBI, so file the petition in the CBI court. The accused who have filed bail petitions include Tejinder Singh, Parvinder Singh, Harvinder Singh and Sarabjit Singh. In this case, an accused and Thar driver Manuj Kathuria has been granted bail by the Sessions Court.
Delhi Police arrested the four co-owners of Rao IAS Study Circle and the Thar driver on July 29. Earlier, coaching owner Abhishek Gupta and coordinator Deshpal Singh were arrested on July 28. All the accused, except the Thar driver, are in judicial custody.
Apart from these accused, Delhi Police has registered a case against the building management, system maintenance employees and other accused under various sections of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Delhi Police has registered a case under sections 105, 106(1), 115(2), 3(5) of the Indian Penal Code.
It is noteworthy that there is a library in the basement of Rao IAS Study Circle. Students preparing for UPSC were studying in this library. Three students studying in this basement got trapped in the sudden flood and died.