Overview

• Acting suo motu on media reports, the commission issued notices to the Delhi chief secretary, the MCD commissioner, and the Central Delhi DCP.
• The notice calls for a detailed account within two weeks covering the circumstances of the collapse and official steps taken afterward.
• Preliminary findings indicate the four-storey structure gave way on August 20 while demolition work was underway with about 15 labourers present.
• The deceased were identified as Zubair, Gulsagar, and Taufiq, all migrant workers from Bihar, who were declared dead at LNJP Hospital.
• Police have registered a case against the building owner and the contractor, as NDRF, police, fire brigade, and DDMA teams carried out rescue operations.