Driver wades through coaching centre row

"What is the Delhi Police doing? Have they lost it?" wondered the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, while castigating the police for arresting an SUV driver for his alleged role in the drowning of three civil services aspirants at a coaching centre here.

The case against the driver is that he drove his Force Gurkha car through the flooded street outside the coaching centre, causing the water to displace and breach the gates of the building, from where the IAS Study Circle was operating, and inundating the basement.

The strong words of the high court, however, did not come to the rescue of the jailed driver whose bail plea was dismissed by a magisterial court later in the day.