Overview
- On August 10, Delhi Police arrested tenant Mohammed Kurshid, 49, for illegally housing multiple migrant families on a scrap-dumping plot in Jaitpur
- Kurshid faces charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, death by negligence and public nuisance under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
- Landlord Rajbir Bhati, who organized the unauthorized shrine boundary wall, remains at large as police conduct raids across southeast Delhi
- The boundary wall collapsed during heavy monsoon rains on August 9, trapping eight migrant workers from West Bengal and Assam and killing seven of them
- The incident has highlighted recurring infrastructure negligence in unauthorized settlements and intensified calls for stricter urban safety enforcement