Abhay Singh
New Delhi: A pall of gloom descended upon Sawan Park in north-west Delhi Ashok Vihar, where seven persons – four children, a man and two women – died after a dilapidated four-storey building collapsed. Police said they had booked three persons, including the owner of the house.
Police said that on August 16, a complaint had been lodged about the building being dangerous by one Sanjeev Gupta, after which a team from North Delhi Municipal Corporation (North MCD) had visited and inspected the building around 20 days ago.
Meanwhile, North MCD said that the building had not been declared dangerous nor was any application received for this by its building department.
Cops also said a case under sections 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC was registered against Dharmendra, the owner of the building, his partner Sachin and his father Roshan Lal.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West) Aslam Khan said a total of 25 people lived at the house number A-43 in Sawan Park's Harijan Basti. See P3