Overview
- A three‑storey structure under construction in a narrow lane of Old Delhi's Chawri Bazar collapsed on Thursday morning, triggering an immediate multi‑agency rescue response.
- Rescue teams from Delhi Police, the NDRF, Delhi Fire Services and the MCD faced major access limits because the building sat at the end of a dead‑end lane barely a few feet wide.
- Teams recovered all six bodies from the debris and identified the deceased as Sanjeet Kumar, Kishori Sah, Pankaj Sharma, Vipin Ram, Shantu and Dinesh Sah.
- Police arrested the building owner, Saimullah (alias Ayub), and three contractors — Siraj, Tajuddin and Furkan — and filed an FIR at Hauz Qazi police station under Sections 105, 290, 125(a) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- The MCD has suspended a Junior Engineer and an Assistant Engineer while officials pursue a technical probe into suspected unauthorised construction and the early removal of centring, a temporary support used until concrete cures, which investigators say likely triggered the collapse.