India, March 13 -- NEW DELHI

A Delhi court rapped the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not sufficiently investigating senior officials who had violated rules in allowing a library to be run at the basement of Rau's IAS coaching centre, where three students drowned in 2024.

The court emphasised that merely saying that the lowest official in the hierarchy was unable to perform his duties "will not suffice the matter."

In a detailed order released on Friday, principal district and sessions judge Dinesh Bhatt said, "The IO (investigating officer) has not investigated from the perspective of dereliction of duties by the concerned officials in regard to the usage of the said building as coaching centre in the basement".

"It was the...