'Pure negligence', say students
Business Standard|July 29, 2024
Chaos reigned supreme at the Karol Bagh metro station on Sunday after hundreds of students, mostly civil servant aspirants, raised slogans: "We want justice," prompting police intervention.
RAGHAV AGGARWAL
'Pure negligence', say students

A scuffle also erupted between the students and police, after which a few protestors were detained.

The students were demanding a fair investigation into the deaths of the three civil service aspirants who were drowned in the flooded basement of a coaching centre in Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area on Saturday. The three civil servant aspirants who died include Tanya Soni, 25, who hailed from Telangana, and a student of Delhi University, Navin Dalwin, 29, from Ernakulam, was pursuing PhD in Arts and Aesthetics from JNU, and Shreya Yadav, 25, a native of Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar.

"We come here with such big dreams of changing the country," said Pankaj Kumar, a 28-year-old aspirant, who was a part of the protest. "Imagine dying like this, and that too in the capital".

Another aspirant, who studied at the coaching centre, said the primary responsibility lies with the institute.

"They charge such high fees and offer us this safety," he said.

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