NHRC Seeks Report from Delhi Govt, Civic Body on Coaching Centre Deaths

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of three students drowned in the flooded basement library of a prominent civil services coaching centre in Delhi on July 27, to issue notices to the Delhi government, city police chief and municipal commissioner.

The NHRC sought a detailed report from them in two weeks.

The Delhi chief secretary has also been asked to get a thorough survey done to ascertain the exact number of such institutes and coaching centres running in violation of the prescribed norms across Delhi. The details of such institutes, including complaints pending against them and action taken by the department concerned, is to be mentioned in the report, the statement issued by the NHRC said.

The NHRC also took cognisance of the death of another civil services aspirant in Delhi’s Patel Nagar area due to electrocution while crossing a waterlogged street.