Delhi Coaching Centre Deaths: High Court Grants Bail To Four Co-Owners Of Basement, Asks Them To Deposit ₹5 Lakh For Deceased Families' Welfare

The Delhi High Court has recently granted regular bail to four co-owners of basement of a coaching centre in city's Old Rajinder Nagar area– Rau's IAS, where three civil services aspirants had died after drowning  in July last year.

Justice Sanjeev Narula granted bail to Parvinder Singh, Tajinder Singh, Harvinder Singh and Sarbjit Singh and asked them to deposit Rs. 5 lakh with the Delhi State Legal Services Authority towards the welfare of the families of the deceased.

This was after the Court was informed that s directed by the Supreme Court, the accused were willing to make a voluntarily donation of Rs. 5 lakh, in aggregate, in the corpus.

“Accordingly, it is directed that the Applicants shall, within a period of two weeks from today, deposit Rs. 5 lacs (in aggregate) with Delhi State Legal Services Authority, towards the welfare of the families of the deceased. The member secretary, DSLSA, shall then consider the claims from the families of deceased and issue direction for disbursal of the said amount after due consideration,” the Court said.

The accused persons were granted interim bail by a coordinate bench in September last year subject to them depositing Rs. 5 crore with Red Cross Society to be utilised by the LG to streamline the running of coaching centres.

Noting that the allegation against the accused was that they had let out the basement for commercial purposes which was not permissible, the Court said that whether such an act amounts to an offence under section 105 and 106 of the BNS is for the trial court to decide based on evidence.

The Court also said that there was no material placed on record either in the status report or otherwise to indicate any corruption angle against the accused persons.

“Accordingly, the order dated 13th September, 2024, granting interim bail is now confirmed as regular bail on the same terms and conditions,” the Court said.

The case was launched under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and the probe is being conducted by the CBI.

It was alleged that the institute was illegally running a library in the basement, where students got stuck in the flood.

Counsel for Petitioners: Mr. Mohit Mathur and Mr. Amit Chadha, Senior Advocates with Mr. Daksh Gupta, Mr. Gaurav Dua, Mr. Kaushal Jeet Kait, Mr. Jatin Yadav, Mr. Harsh Gautam, Mr. Vignesh, Mr. Sarthak Sethi and Mr. Atin Chadha, Advocates

Counsel for Respondent: Mr. Rajesh Kumar, SPP with Mohd. Changez Ali Khan, Advocate. Mr. Abhijit Anand, Ms. Tisha Kaushik, Ms. Niyoti Dayma and Ms. Prachi Mittal, Advocates for victim

Case title: Parvinder Singh v CBI and other cases

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 95

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