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The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a reply to bail pleas filed by the four co-owners of the Old Rajinder Nagar coaching centre basement, where three civil service aspirants lost their lives after drowning in July. The next hearing on the matter has been scheduled for September 11. 

This comes after three civil service aspirants identified as Shreya Yadav of Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar, Tanya Soni from Telangana, and Navin Dalwin from Ernakulam in Kerala died after the basement of Rau's IAS Study Circle in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar was flooded following heavy rain. 

The jailed co-owners of the coaching centre basement identified as  Parvinder Singh, Tajinder Singh, Harvinder Singh and Sarbjit Singh, had moved the Delhi High Court, seeking bail in the criminal case against them. They mentioned that they were just landlords renting out the basement to a coaching center and therefore had no involvement in the unfortunate incident that took the lives of three civil service aspirants.

A sessions court had earlier dismissed the bail pleas of the co-owners, saying the CBI investigation was at an initial stage and their specific roles had to be ascertained.

The Delhi High Court had transferred the case, which is being probed under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), from the Delhi Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). 

Following the deaths of civil aspirants, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) launched action against the illegal coaching centres and sealed several coaching centres. The coaching centres that were sealed during MCD’s crackdown were IAS Gurukul, IAS Setu, Chahal Academy, Plutus Academy, Topper's Academy, Dainik Samvad, Civils Daily IAS, Career Power, 99 Notes, Vidya Guru, Guidance IAS, and Easy for IAS among others.