Delhi IAS coaching centre deaths: High court slams ‘freebie culture’, summons MCD commissioner.

Delhi IAS coaching centre deaths: Delhi high court directed civic authorities to remove all encroachments on drains in Old Rajinder Nagar area by Friday. The Delhi high court on Wednesday hit out at Delhi government’s “freebie culture” over the death of three civil services aspirants in the basement of the Rau’s IAS coaching centre due to flooding in Old Rajinder Nagar on July 27. The Delhi high court also directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner, deputy commissioner of Police (DCP) and investigating officer to appear in the court on Friday, news agency PTI reported. The Delhi high court directed authorities to remove all encroachments on drains in Centre Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar area by Friday.The court made the observation while hearing a plea seeking constitution of a high-level committee to probe into the Rajinder Nagar incident. The matter to be heard next at 2:30pm on Friday. Death of 3 UPSC aspirants at Delhi IAS coaching centre. The civil services aspirants – Shreya Yadav of Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni from Telangana, and Nevin Dalwin from Ernakulam in Kerala – died on Saturday evening after they were trapped inside the library running in the basement of Old Rajinder Nagar-based Rau’s IAS Study Circle, which was flooded due to rain. A division bench of acting chief justice Manmohan and justice Tushar Rao Gedela said because of the “freebie culture”, the government has no money to upgrade the infrastructure, particularly the city’s drainage system, in face of the exploding population of the city. ‘We will transfer probe to CBI if…’: Delhi high courtThe court said the responsibility of the investigation needs to be fixed. “If it is not then we will transfer the investigation under some central agency. We will either bring it under CVC (CBI) or Lokpal we will bring under. We will like it to be done under some statutory mechanism. It will bring a larger picture. We will pass a straight order over there. Fixing responsibility in this case. This is a serious incident. It is infrastructure breakdown at the larger level. First, it’s a case of negligence,” the bench said.