Overview
- A three‑storey building under construction in Gali Sitara near Chawri Bazar Metro station suddenly collapsed at about 9:50 a.m. on Thursday, leaving two people dead and one injured while several others were feared trapped.
- Rescue teams from the Delhi Fire Service, the National Disaster Response Force and Delhi Police deployed six fire units and continued search‑and‑rescue efforts at the scene.
- Eyewitnesses said several newly cast lintels gave way and that around three to eight labourers were working on the site; the technical cause of the collapse remains under investigation.
- Hindustan Times reported that Delhi Police had flagged unauthorised work at the address months earlier and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi suspended two engineering staff the same day while an FIR was filed against the contractor.
- The incident revives wider concerns about illegal expansion, weak enforcement and uneven follow‑up identified in recent magisterial inquiries into Delhi collapses, which recommended mandatory structural audits, GIS tracking and stronger, sustained action by civic agencies.