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The court refused to grant bail to four co-owners in the case of death of three IAS aspirants due to water logging in the basement in Rajendra Nagar. Principal Additional District and Sessions Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna of Rouse Avenue Court refused to grant bail to Parvinder Singh, Harvinder Singh, Sarabjit Singh and Tajinder Singh. Recently, the trial court had granted bail to SUV driver and businessman Manoj Kathuria in this case.
All the three aspirants died in the flooded basement of Rau’s IAS coaching centre. The institute was running an illegal library in the basement where the students were trapped in the flood.
Recently, the Delhi High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the deaths. The Supreme Court also initiated a suo motu case to ascertain the safety compliance of coaching centres in the national capital in the wake of the drowning tragedy. The accused have been booked under sections 105, 106 (1), 115 (2), 290 and 3 (5) of the Indian Penal Code (BNS), 2023 in a case registered at police station Rajinder Nagar on July 27.
The accused were arrested on July 28. Following the High Court’s August 2 order handing over the investigation of the case to the CBI, the sessions court at Tis Hazari had rejected their bail pleas with liberty to approach the appropriate court through an order dated August 5, 2024. Earlier, the metropolitan magistrate had rejected their applications on July 31, 2024.
The accused have sought bail on the ground that the Metropolitan Magistrate did not consider the fact that the name of the applicant was not in the FIR and the applicants along with other co-owners went to the police station in good faith and remained in the custody of the investigating officer despite the fact that the IO did not even summon them which clearly shows the bona fides of the applicants.