MCD crackdown on Delhi’s IAS coaching centres; what investigation found: Updates

Rau’s IAS coaching centre deaths: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) sealed the basements of 13 civil services institutes in Old Rajinder Nagar area on Sunday, a day after three civil services aspirants’ died after a library housed in the basement of Rau’s IAS centre got inundated in a heavy rain. A team of the civic body reached the Old Rajinder Nagar area to seal several illegally-run basements of coaching centres, a statement by the Delhi government said.
The MCD crackdown on the properties violating building bylaws comes following massive protests by students in the Old Rajendra Nagar area Saturday night and Sunday. Shreya Yadav of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni from Telangana, and Navin Dalwin from Ernakulam in Kerala died after the basement of Rau’s IAS Study Circle was flooded following heavy rain on Saturday evening.
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Meanwhile, an initial probe into the incident shows absence of drainage system and safety measures, and use of basement for commercial activities in violation of norms led to the death of the three civil services aspirants at the coaching centre.
(With inputs from agencies)