He has not been seen since. June 6, Sunday, was a regular weekend for Rishit, who had come to drink tea with his friends at Delhi’s Satya Niketan. He was supposed to meet a friend at 2 pm, a student who was staying as a paying guest in the area. At around 1:10 pm, Rishit got a message from his friend that he was coming down in a minute.
Building owner Hariram Gupta was arrested from Rajasthan on Monday, while the Municipal Corporation of Delhi suspended five of its employees. He just messaged me prior to the incident, saying, ‘You get ready, I’m just in the bathroom, bathing. I’ll be there in a minute. Pointing out to other such incidents over the years, he asked why students have to lose their lives despite paying high rents. The incident has prompted authorities to take action. Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court pulled up authorities while hearing the matter, asserting that the government “cannot escape responsibility.
“We had a plan to go out at 2 pm. Around 20 students were living on each floor of the five-storey building, according to him. He said there were at least 30-40 students inside at the time of the collapse.
In just five minutes, the whole building collapsed,” he said. The student said nobody was aware that the building owners had received a legal warning to renovate the building, or such a serious work was going on in the basement. The high court called the incident “deeply tragic.”
