Coaching deaths case: Rau’s IAS offers Rs 50 lakh compensation to kin of victims

New Delhi, August 2
Rau’s IAS Study Circle has offered compensation of Rs 50 lakh each to the families of three civil services aspirants who died after rainwater gushed inside the institute’s basement in Old Rajinder Nagar last week.

The institute announced the compensation on Thursday, five days after the incident occurred.

“We are offering Rs 50 lakh compensation to the family of each student who has lost their lives. Half the money will be given now. While the remaining portion will be given once Abhishek Gupta, CEO of the organisation, comes out or within six months, whichever is earlier,” Rau’s IAS advocate Mohit Saraf said.

The Delhi Police has arrested seven persons in connection with the case, including Rau’s CEO Abhishek Gupta and coordinator Deshpal Singh.

Family members of the two victims, Shreya Yadav and Nevin Dalvin, said that they want justice for all the victims, and they have no information regarding the compensation as nobody from the institute has contacted them.

“We are not in a state to think about the compensation, we want justice for our daughter and other students who have died. Regarding compensation, we have not been contacted by anyone as of now,” said Yadav’s kin.

Dalvin’s kin said that they have not been contacted by anybody regarding the compensation, and more than compensation, they demanded justice for their son and the daughters who died in the incident.

Meanwhile, many of the civil services aspirants, who have been protesting over the deaths of the three students for the past six days, called the compensation unjust and a strategy to dilute the issue.