Coaching centers become death chambers : Supreme Court on UPSC aspirants death

Today SC slammed the authorities for failing to regulate coaching centres.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance in the UPSC aspirant’s death case and issued notice to the centre and Delhi Government over the death of the three students, who died in the flooded basement of an IAS coaching centre in Rajendra Nagar amid heavy rain.

During the hearing, the SC lambasted authorities for failing to regulate coaching centres, accusing them of ‘playing with the lives of children’.

The coaching centres are playing with the lives of students, SC asked the central government and Delhi government what kind of safety protocols were in place in the National capital’s coaching centres.

Initiating a case in the matter, a two-judge bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan issued notices to the Centre and Delhi government while commenting that the recent deaths were an “eye-opener” and that the coaching centres had become “death chambers”.

This incident sparked outrage across the country and last week, Delhi HC ordered the CBI to probe the case.