Overview
- A section of a second-floor balcony gave way during an inspection, triggering sequential collapses of parts of the first-floor and ground-floor balconies and trapping two men under debris.
- The homeowner, identified as 60-year-old Kanhaiya Singh Yadav, died while receiving treatment and a contractor named Pawan remains hospitalized.
- Neighbours pulled both men from the rubble and emergency services took them to a private hospital for treatment, with the body released to the family after a postmortem and inquest procedures.
- Local Resident Welfare Association leaders say many houses in Sushant Lok are over two decades old and show signs of structural distress, and they have asked authorities to carry out a comprehensive survey or create a complaints portal.
- Gurugram police completed initial inquest steps and a town and country planning official said the department will look into the case, leaving a formal administrative review and any remediation to follow.