00:00Let's go across now to the details that are coming in from on the ground.
00:04There are protests that are broken out, college students have come out.
00:08It's also a location where due to elections are coming forth,
00:12so some protests by the students as well.
00:14Some breaking news is coming in, ladies and gentlemen.
00:16I want to bring to you what the Chief Minister of Delhi has said.
00:19Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who was here yesterday as well and today as well,
00:23and ensuring strict action, she has said,
00:25has ordered comprehensive action following the incident,
00:28and continuously monitoring the rescue, relief and safety measures.
00:31Building owner has been arrested.
00:33So that's the latest confirmation coming in from the Chief Minister's office.
00:37The building owner has been arrested.
00:39Legal proceedings are underway.
00:41Five MCD officials, different designations,
00:43from Deputy Commissioner to Assistant Engineer and Junior Engineer
00:47have been suspended with immediate effect.
00:49And if there is a fifth floor on any building,
00:52that have been ordered to be sealed.
00:53Anshul continues to be with us.
00:55Anshul, so that's the latest.
00:57A policy seems to have been announced that if there are fifth floor across such buildings,
01:02they will be ordered to be sealed.
01:04A policy will be brought to make periodic structural audits.
01:07No public activity prevented.
01:09But I want to look at the five MCD officials who have been suspended from duty.
01:13It's a rightful action.
01:14But many would say it's late.
01:16It's delayed.
01:16Too little, too late.
01:17It's definitely too little, too late.
01:19And we have seen in several such tragedies that have happened in the national capital over the past many years.
01:23For example, the old Rajanagar case in which the flooding had happened.
01:27In that case as well, the government came down very strongly and said that we will suspend the officers.
01:31But eventually what happened, they were taken back to their jobs and they were continuing with their jobs.
01:35Similarly, we saw what happened in Malviya Nagar recently where yet again the Chief Minister said almost similar things what
01:41she said here this morning that we will take action.
01:44There will be a panel that will be made that will go into all the buildings, safety audit.
01:48They will carry out a safety audit.
01:49But that definitely did not happen over here.
01:51So, even after the statements that have been made from the side of the Chief Minister's office, what remains to
01:56be seen as to how much of it would actually be implemented on the ground.
01:59Because in previous cases, the experience has not been very good.
02:02We learn lessons, we announce inquiries and then we forget about it.
02:05I want to get in some voices.
02:07There's a young man here.
02:08If I can bring you here.
02:11Come here, come here.
02:11Tell me about, are you living here?
02:13Yeah, I've been living here for the past few months.
02:15And I'm just a first year student like all of the others that died in that building.
02:19And it's a whole mess around here.
02:21As many people are watching here, there were 30-40 students.
02:24There were many more.
02:25Imagine, like there were 20 people in one floor.
02:28There were 5 stories.
02:29Plus there was this restaurant just below it.
02:32There was this tea stall.
02:32There was this library where people were studying.
02:34We were not ready for it.
02:35We were not aware of it.
02:37It was our own fault, we can say.
02:39Because the kids didn't have awareness that they were working inside.
02:42The kids didn't know.
02:43In fact, the whole area of the people, who are living here, will tell them.
02:47But the kids and mostly people now know when the building fell in, that they were working inside.
02:51There were a lot of people.
02:52And you have confirmation that they were all young students, possibly first-year students?
02:56They were first-year students.
02:57Yeah, my friend was in there.
02:58We had a plan to go out to Kutuminar by 2 p.m.
03:02By 1 p.m. he messaged me that he's bathing and he'll be there in a minute.
03:05The next minute we saw the building was collapsed.
03:08Your friend was in there, as in caught in this?
03:10He is in there.
03:11He wasn't.
03:12He is.
03:12He is.
03:13He is.
03:14He's got caught in the building right now?
03:15Yeah.
03:15Yeah, he is in the rubble and he's not been found yet.
03:18He's not been put in any of the details about him?
03:20His name is Atharv.
03:22Atharv Rawat from Chhattisgarh.
03:23He studies in my college only, but...
03:25His college is this if not?
03:26ARSD.
03:26Atmaram Sanathana.
03:27That's right opposite.
03:28Yeah, it's the right opposite of the metro station.
03:30And there were a lot of attempts, but he's not been found yet.
03:33He called me from inside there.
03:35I was not able to pick up because our phones were not charged.
03:38We were not ready for anything.
03:39The people that were stuck inside there, his phone was only a few hours ago.
03:43When did you talk about your phone last night?
03:453.30.
03:463.30.
03:46So that means two hours later?
03:49Yes, two hours after the incident, he was there.
03:51He was alive.
03:52But I don't think he is...
03:54But you have contacted him?
03:57Yes, a lot of people have tried to do it.
03:59How is it going?
03:59How is it going?
03:59There was a tone?
04:00No, it was a tone, but the phone switched off.
04:02Because of course, the batteries have been down.
04:04And he was down there, I guess, in the library or something.
04:08He was studying.
04:09There was a library also inside?
04:10Yeah, there was.
04:11There are a lot of rumors, but it's not true.
04:13And it's not that there were only 30 people inside.
04:16There were a lot of people inside.
04:18There were people who were not supposed to be there.
04:20In fact, I was drinking tea down there 10 minutes prior to the incident.
04:23And it was just my gut feeling that I should have some lunch.
04:27When I went to lunch, I just had one swallow and all of it just came down.
04:33What is your name again?
04:34So I'm Rishit Ratadya from Udhapur, Rajasthan.
04:36Rishit Ratadya from Udhapur, Rajasthan.
04:38So what happened was your friend from Udhapur, you said that there was two hours.
04:44Yes.
04:45After that, there has been no contact.
04:47Survivors have been left here.
04:48He's not among the survivors.
04:50He's not among the survivors.
04:51Because survivors, all of the survivors have been left here in the upper floors, 4th or 5th or 5th floor.
04:55Those kids have been found on the terrace because they haven't come down to Malabia.
04:58Those kids who were on the 1st or 2nd floor, all of them have come down to the beach.
05:02Which floor was on Atharv?
05:04Atharv was on the 2nd floor.
05:06When I talked about it, his room 20 something was there and he was just a new guy.
05:11He shifted from 36th house.
05:13When?
05:14One week.
05:15One week back here?
05:16One week back here.
05:18One week back here.
05:19And...
05:19When his parents knew that they were on the train, they were on to a function.
05:24They were on to a function.
05:25They are now coming here but we are not able to find here.
05:28If I can ask and I understand these are tough questions to ask that the bodies that have
05:32been pulled out, there is no confirmation at least.
05:35No, no, no.
05:35Actually, the bodies that are pulled out are not identified by any chances.
05:38There were two bodies that were pulled out in front of my eyes.
05:41One body was just a pair.
05:44The people who saw it was just a pair.
05:47The other body was just a pair.
05:49We can imagine how our waist is in front of my eyes.
05:52His waist was back and his legs were back.
05:54He must have been disturbed.
05:55Yeah.
05:56And his intestines was out.
05:57It was really disturbing.
05:58All of them are almost bigger.
06:00As the video surface is happening, the kids are making videos.
06:04But still, they are...
06:05Do you...
06:06How are you keeping hope?
06:08Because you know someone...
06:10For honest...
06:11To be honest, like, I don't think there is any hope there.
06:14I don't think he has been able to talk.
06:16He has been able to drink or food, whatever.
06:18But there is no air down there.
06:20He is inside a lot of tons of rubble.
06:23I know he is maybe alive, maybe dead, until found.
06:27There are a lot of students there.
06:28Can you tell me a little bit about Athar?
06:30What do you know?
06:31What do you remember?
06:32Okay, so...
06:32He is just a normal guy.
06:34He is a decent guy from Satyashgarh.
06:35And he just shipped it, I guess, one week ago.
06:38We just met the day before that incident took place.
06:41And we just had a quick plan that, okay, let's just go to old Delhi.
06:44And let's just...
06:45In the same area, let's just go out and have tea.
06:47Yeah, let's just have tea.
06:48And because it had a very prominent tea culture right there.
06:51Because just beside the building, no?
06:54Tea stall, there were shops, there were libraries.
06:56People don't know what happened.
06:58But still,
06:59When this incident happened,
07:02Shout out to the private companies.
07:04Blinkit's ambulance came.
07:06No other ambulance was there.
07:08Blinkit's 12-13 ambulance was all in the street.
07:10When I personally called Blinkit's ambulance,
07:12When they asked me what happened,
07:13I told them that there was a building.
07:14They sent 3-4 ambulance only on this call.
07:19Before any other ambulance could come.
07:21Before any police could come.
07:22Just for information,
07:23Police kiosk is around 100 meters away from this place.
07:26Yet police was 30 minutes away from it.
07:28When they came,
07:29They started to kill people.
07:30That was expected.
07:32That was it.
07:32What we could do,
07:34We had a little bit.
07:34That could be crowd control also.
07:36That could be crowd control.
07:37But yeah, it caused a stampede.
07:39Oh, it did.
07:40It did.
07:40So a lot of people caught it there.
07:42He's making a very important point.
07:43Because this is the start of a fresh college season.
07:46So this is the time,
07:47Because September is the time when students actually join colleges.
07:50So some of them like you,
07:52Would have come to Delhi for the first time to stay.
07:55We didn't know anything about the area.
07:57We all had hopes.
07:59It was Sunday.
08:00Everybody was sleeping down there.
08:02Might be in the bathroom.
08:03Might be washing some clothes.
08:05There was a lot of tension here last night.
08:07Yes.
08:07We have a lot of tension.
08:08But our parents have a lot more.
08:10Our building is okay.
08:13But we cannot trust anybody here.
08:15I wish you all the best.
08:17And I hope that you will be safe.
08:19And I hope and let's pray that Atharv also is safe.
