New Delhi, June 9 A 26-year-old man doing his post-graduation from the Delhi University died on Wednesday after a house collapsed due to the digging of a basement in an adjacent under construction building, the police said.
An officer said that the police received a call at around 4.30 pm that due to digging of a basement of an adjacent under construction building, a house has collapsed in the Panchsheel Park area in south Delhi and one person has been trapped in the debris.
He said a police team rushed to the spot on getting the information and removed the debris.
"After the debris was removed, the body of a man named Ishan Sethi, a resident of Mussoorie in Uttarakhand, was found," he said.
The officer said that Sethi was staying on rent at Panchsheel Park, adjacent to the under construction site where digging of a basement was taking place.
He was doing his post-graduation from Delhi University.
The body has been shifted to the AIIMS mortuary and his parents have been informed, the police said.
A case has been registered and the accused contractors Vikas Bhayana and Rahul Bhayana have been arrested.
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