00:00A building has collapsed in old Delhi's Chauri Bazaar at a time of festive season.
00:04Chauri Bazaar, known for the massive wholesale or retail shopping, is the busiest at this time of the year.
00:11And a building has collapsed, two people confirmed dead.
00:14That's the big news break that is coming here on India Today on the news break,
00:18where Delhi Chief Minister has taken action after the building crashed.
00:22But what is the action that we are looking at?
00:25Junior engineer and an assistant engineer has been suspended.
00:29Also the Delhi Chief Minister is saying, one injured, two dead in building collapsed.
00:33Rekha Gupta says, FR has been registered against the contractor as well.
00:37According to our information, there was under construction work that was going on at this building.
00:41The CM says, will not spare those responsible for negligence.
00:46Two people have confirmed died, one is injured, survived, has been pulled out.
00:50FR has been registered against the contractor.
00:53A JE and AE, which is junior engineer and assistant engineer, have been suspended.
00:57Those responsible will not be spared.
00:59But that's a big question.
01:00The word junior, the word assistant here, what about the top leadership?
01:07What about the ones who are to be held accountable as much as the junior engineers?
01:12Where was this building located?
01:13What kind of a building was this?
01:15What kind of an under construction work was going on?
01:17But let's first listen in to Delhi Chief Minister.
01:48The
01:49the security card hand cut a week and I put it all over the adhikari yeah
01:54hopper another and I'll carry a seal a pervahy comes over Bacchan in Jaga
02:00India today is the Shambhavi Srivastava is joining me for the latest on that
02:04Shambhavi of course the big question then again becomes is why this kind of
02:07an action of simply suspension of the engineers is that enough is this
02:10protocol because this comes barely two months after what happened in Satya
02:14Niketan
02:20absolutely absolutely given that this is now the second incident in the past
02:24couple of months and all these actions which follows later like in there's a
02:29suspension of the assistant engineer and the junior engineer or filing asking for
02:33an inquiry or filing of an FIR all of it seems too little too late given that
02:39here two people have already lost their lives four are injured in the building
02:43collapse of the five-story building collapse at Satya Niketan seven people
02:47lost their lives there were several severely injured and there was
02:51constantly even right now they're trying to figure out if somebody is still left
02:55under the debris so such situation and where MCD has reportedly said that no
03:01sanction no plan construction plan was sanctioned so why the building in the
03:06first place and that too if you hear the accounts of the people who heard the loud
03:12noise when the building fell they went out and they saw that several cement slabs
03:17and that too those slabs are very heavy those heavy cement slabs had fallen down
03:23broken and not one not two but several of them so all of this and then the
03:29suspension of the engineer or the filing of an FIR against the constructor all of it
03:36seems too little too late Shambhavi keep tracking the latest on that and just stay
03:41on with me because I want to look at these visuals and let's put it on our
03:44screens to help the viewer understand the gravity of the situation that we are
03:47looking at remember this is old Delhi purani Delhi any Delhiwala knows what old
03:52Delhi and Chaudi Bazaar Chandani Chowk is at this point it's busiest shoppers
03:57shopkeepers bustling markets there sometimes there's no space to even walk
04:02as well and at a time like this and at a time like this when a building
04:07collapses remember it would be most likely whatever work was happening there
04:11would be workers at that location Shambhavi are we looking at perhaps more
04:16people who should be and could be rescued in time time is of essence here
04:19because the previous report by Anshul Singh also suggested that you cannot take
04:23heavy machinery and equipments into these narrow by lanes which means it has to
04:27be work done by the rescue personnel by hand and that could delay the procedure
04:37well yes again the similarity between both these incidents are eerie given that
04:43of course that was a narrow lane as well here the narrow lanes of purani Delhi it is
04:47basically like Varanasi those narrow lanes are in the old Delhi and near the
04:53Chaudi Bazaar and all of it so any kind of heavy mechanical machinery is will be
04:59very difficult to be of course taken inside so all the it just delays the
05:04entire process if at all by any chance unfortunate chance that there is somebody
05:10still stuck under the debris by the time the NDRF the fire services and the
05:15respective teams will manage to get them out or will manage to do all the work by
05:20their own hands by some portable equipments and not the heavy machinery
05:25which would have made this entire exercise much much easier and would have
05:29saved lives that why is it that we always learn after an incident happens
05:35all Delhi we know that there are exposed wires we know that while there are
05:39historical buildings there are also added encroachments to that there are
05:44dilapidated buildings as well why shouldn't action be taken in time why must we
05:48lose lives of anyone constantly that this is happening in Delhi we'll be tracking
05:52that and more Shambhavi appreciate you joining us Shambhavi and Anshul have been
05:55reporting from on the location I have more news coming in let's take a look at that
