New Delhi: One among the three IAS aspirants who fell victim to flooding in the basement of Rau’s Coaching Center in Delhi hailed from Telangana.
The bodies have been identified by the Delhi Police.
M Harsha Vardhan, DCP Central Delhi, in a video Post on X, identified the victims as Tania Soni, Shreya Yadav (both aged 25) and Navin Delvin, 28.
Tania hailed from Telangana, Shreya was from Uttar Pradesh, and Navin was a resident of Kerala.
The students were killed after being trapped for over four hours when water suddenly gushed into the basement after heavy rains on Saturday.
The three were aspiring civil servants. “An FIR has been registered in Rajendera Nagar police station against the coaching centre, the building management, caretakers and those whose role is found in the course of the investigation,” said DCP Harsha Vardhan.
“So far, two people have been detained—owner and coordinator,” he added. Further investigation is underway.
Shared the IAS dream
Twenty-five-year-old Tania Soni joined the elite coaching center a year ago in order to become an IAS officer. Her father Vijay Kumar is a manager at SRP-I underground mine in Srirampur.
At the time of the tragedy, her parents were in Nagpur. Upon hearing the news, they rushed to the capital to bring back their daughter’s body to Mancherial.
