Delhi High Court transfers investigation into coaching centre deaths to CBI

The Delhi High Court on Friday transferred the probe into the drowning of three civil services aspirants at the basement of a coaching centre here from police to the CBI "to ensure the public has no doubt over the investigation".

Criticising the police for arresting an SUV driver and blaming him for the incident, the high court said, "Mercifully, you have not challaned the rainwater for entering into the basement."

"You would have said how dare the water enter the basement. You could have fined the water also, the way you arrested the SUV driver for driving his car there," it said.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to nominate a senior officer to oversee the probe by the CBI into the criminal case in a time-bound manner.

The court said one needs to look at the bigger picture as there is a far more fundamental problem in the city and it was time to relook at Delhi's administrative, financial and physic