In the Old Rajinder Nagar neighbourhood of central Delhi, three Civil Service hopefuls lost their lives when a coaching center’s basement flooded on Saturday night as a result of heavy rain. The bodies of Shreya Yadav from Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni from Telangana, and Nevin Dalvin from Kerala were discovered by rescuers as they excavated the basement.
Aspirants and students at Rau’s coaching centre became extremely enraged at the incident, and other institutions protested outside the coaching centre and carried signs criticising the officials for the murders.
In addition to accusing the institute of carelessness, the victims’ families claimed they were denied access to view the victims’ bodies at the hospital.
In April 2024, Shreya Yadav, a 25-year-old student from Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar, enrolled in Rau’s IAS tutoring program. Out of her three siblings, Shreya was the oldest. Her goal upon moving to Delhi was to ace one of the hardest exams in the nation.
Shreya graduated with a B.Sc. in Agriculture from Sultanpur’s Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology. Her instructors and family recall her as a bright child who was always “smart in studies” and as a potential student.
In Ambedkar Nagar, Shreya’s father owns a dairy store, and her brother Abhishek Yadav studies mass communication.
Rajendra Yadav, Shreya’s father, asserted that she had previously told the family about the basements flooding after rain and that the institute had taken no action to resolve the problem. Her father alleged that the institute did not inform him about the incident and he came to know about it through the media. Meanwhile, Shreya’s uncle Dharmendra Yadav alleged he was not allowed to see her body at the hospital.
Tanya Soni, a 25-year-old woman, was originally from Aurangabad in Bihar but now lived in Secunderabad, Telangana. She attended Delhi University as a student.
She had enrolled in the coaching program 1.5 months prior and was living in the women’s dorm at Maharaja Agrasen College, DU, according to news agency.
Vijay Kumar, Tanya’s father, is employed by a Telangana mining business. She had a brother and a sister who were her younger siblings.
Following a post-mortem, her body was brought to Aurangabad for the final rites.
The 28-year-old Nevin Dalvin, an IAS candidate from Ernakulam, Kerala, had been residing in Delhi for around eight months. He was a Jawaharlal Nehru University PhD candidate. Nevin, who was staying at Patel Nagar, had visited the library located at the basement at around 10 am on Saturday morning.
Nevin’s family has been staying in Ernakulam for the last 10-12 years, and they are originally from the Thiruvananthapuram district.
