New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered a case of death due to negligence after two boys were killed when a wall collapsed in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on Thursday. Efforts are on now to determine whether the wall belonged to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) or the Public Works Department (PWD), said police.The incident was reported to the Vasant Vihar police station at 4.44 pm, stating that a wall had collapsed near Hanuman Mandir in Basant Nagar. A police team rushed to the spot and found a portion of the wall reduced to rubble. The two boys, originally from Begusarai and Madhubani districts in Bihar, were pulled out from the debris by rescue personnel and transported in PCR vans to the AIIMS Trauma Centre, where doctors declared them dead on arrival.Initial investigation suggests the children were sitting on a staircase next to the wall when it suddenly gave way. Police noted the wall separates two properties—a PWD plot on one side and a staircase leading to a DDA park on the other—leading to uncertainty over which agency owns the structure.”Local residents say it is a PWD wall, but the matter is being verified,” said a senior police officer.Disaster management teams and civic officials, including those from DDA, were deployed to assist at the site. The remaining debris was cleared to rule out the possibility of others being trapped. Authorities suspect the collapse was triggered by heavy rainfall and waterlogging earlier in the day.Police have informed both DDA and PWD about the incident. Structural inspection reports and post-mortem findings are awaited and will determine the next steps in the investigation.
