Delhi Police on Sunday arrested Abhishek Gupta, CEO and owner of RAU’s IAS Coaching Center and its co-ordinator Deshpal Singh. Three UPSC aspirants died after getting trapped in the flooded basement of the center amid heavy rains. Immediately after their arrest, both were produced in the Magistrate Court and they have been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. Rau IAS Center is known as the top coaching center for UPSC preparation through English medium. Let us know what are his own qualifications?
Who is Abhishek Gupta, owner of Rau Coaching?
Abhishek Gupta has been running this coaching for a long time. According to his LinkedIn profile, Abhishek Gupta is the CEO and owner of Rau’s IAS Study Circle since February 2009. Prior to this, he worked as an analyst at Watson Wyatt from 2004 to 2006 and then worked at EvaluateServ for a year. Abhishek Gupta has also worked in the Corporate Solutions department at Jones Lang LaSalle from 2007 to 2008. According to his LinkedIn profile, he studied at Modern School, Delhi between 1988 and 2001. Abhishek Gupta also obtained his bachelor’s degree from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies between 2001 and 2004.
coaching owner arrested
In this case, the police have registered an FIR and formed several teams to investigate the accident. Police have arrested the coaching center owner Abhishek Gupta and the coordinator and booked them under culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other charges. It has been mentioned in the FIR that the drainage system on the road was not proper, due to which there was water logging on the road and later water entered the basement.
Abhishek Gupta accepted his mistake
Coaching center owner Abhishek Gupta has admitted that there was no drainage system in the basement, due to which the accident occurred. The police asked Abhishek Gupta for permission documents for the library in the basement, which Abhishek did not have. Abhishek confessed that there was no drainage system in the basement. According to the FIR, when the rescue operation started, there was 3 feet of water in the slit basement, the students were trapped in the basement below, where the library was functioning. The NDRF team went to the basement (library) to remove the bodies, while the DFS helped in pumping out the water.