Three UPSC aspirants tragically died when a basement library at Rau’s IAS Circle in Old Rajinder Nagar was flooded during heavy rains on July 27.
On Thursday, Principal District and Sessions Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna issued a stern warning to an advocate, threatening contempt proceedings if he continued to misbehave in court. The judge emphatically stated, “Don’t even think you can misbehave in my court. My staff has informed me that you have been misbehaving with them since this morning.”
The advocate, Abhijit Anand, was representing the father of one of the UPSC aspirants who had drowned in the incident. During the hearing, Anand had filed an application requesting the court to direct the summoning of the building sanction plan for the basement and third floor of the Rau’s IAS Study Circle. Although the application was assigned to an additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM), Anand insisted that it should be heard by a district judge.
When the court reassigned his application to another court handling related matters, Anand objected and demanded that the court either hear his application or dismiss it outright. “It is my right to be heard. I want to make submissions,” Anand argued, representing J. Dalvil Suresh, the father of the deceased Nevin Dalvil.
The Case
The victims were identified as Shreya Yadav from Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh; Tanya Soni from Telangana; and Nivin Dalwin from Ernakulam, Kerala. According to the police, around 30 students were present at the coaching center during the flood. Twelve to fourteen were rescued and taken to the hospital, while the rest managed to escape.
The day after the tragedy, Delhi Police arrested two individuals—Abhishek Gupta, 41, the CEO and owner of the institute, and DP Singh, 60, the coordinator—on charges of culpable homicide. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is currently handling the case.
