India, Oct. 23 -- Five people associated with Winners Academy, an Alandi-based coaching institute, were booked by Dighi Coastal Police on October 18 for alleged negligence in connection with the drowning deaths of eight students at Diveagar beach in Raigad district on October 1. Police had initially registered accidental death cases.

The accused have been identified as academy founder Amar Gautam Adak, Mangal Suresh Narskhede, Saba Mahbub Inamdar, Shilpa Amar Adak and Vaishnavi Mangal Narskhede. They were booked under Sections 106(1) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), pertaining to causing death by negligence and acts committed by several persons with common intention, respectively.

Police said on Thursday that the FIR was r...