Delhi Police arrested three members of a family on Tuesday who owned and managed the four-storey residential structure that collapsed in southwest Delhi’s Satya Niketan, as forensic search teams officially concluded recovery efforts confirming seven deaths.
Investigators from the South West district police took registered titleholder Asha Singhal, her husband Rajesh Singhal, and their adult son Mukul into custody under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, negligent repair of machinery, and causing hurt by endangering personal safety. According to the investigation dossier, the family had collected premium room rents from outstation scholars while executing unlicensed excavation to enlarge subterranean basement storage.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Rohit Meena stated that interrogations revealed the landlords had deliberately ignored structural warning creaks reported by student boarders forty-eight hours prior to the cave-in. Sub-divisional forensic experts retrieved forged clearance documentation that had been used to evade routine neighborhood inspections by municipal squad teams.
The three suspects were remanded to five days of police custody following their production before a duty magistrate at the Patiala House Court complex. State prosecutors indicated that additional charges under municipal anti-corruption statutes may follow once the financial transactions involving local sub-inspectors are forensically audited.
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https://newsonair.gov.in/delhi-police-arrests-3-members-of-family-that-owned-collapsed-building-in-sayta-niketan-area-of-national-capital/