New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated it may expand its court-monitored exercise against illegal constructions and unauthorised change of land use in Delhi to cover the safety of student accommodation, following the death of seven people in the collapse of an illegally constructed building being used as a paying guest facility in Satya Niketan. A bench of justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan said it would urgently take up the issue on Thursday, after the amicus curiae sought an expansion of the ongoing inspection exercise to PG accommodations, private hostels and similar facilities around colleges and universities across Delhi. The court turned down an oral request from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, MCD and Delhi Police, to allow the Delhi High Court to continue dealing with the Satya Niketan collapse separately. When Mehta urged that the tragic incident not be mixed with the larger issue already pending before the Supreme Court, the bench disagreed. "No. This might have been taken up in the right earnest but it is overlapping. We will take it up. We already have something in mind," responded the bench. Senior advocate Ajit Kumar Sinha, the court-appointed amicus curiae, told the bench that the latest status report highlighted the Satya Niketan tragedy and sought urgent directions as the inspection exercise ordered by the Supreme Court was already underway. Sinha is assisted by advocate-on-record Govind Jee. The court said it would hear the matter on Thursday and indicated that it could subsequently consider transferring the proceedings pending before it into the Supreme Court. The development assumes significance as the Supreme Court's existing exercise, initiated against the backdrop of widespread violations of building bye-laws and land-use regulations in Delhi, had so far focussed on areas including Lajpat Nagar, Saket and Malviya Nagar. Satya Niketan was not among the localities covered by the inspection. The amicus has now urged the court to extend the exercise across Delhi, particularly to student accommodation located around universities and colleges, where residential properties are frequently used as PGs or private hostels and may have undergone unauthorised additions or changes in use. The latest status report records that a multi-storeyed building at P-14, Satya Niketan, collapsed on September 6. The property, spread over around 55 square yards, had a basement and four floors above the ground and was being used as a boys' PG under the name Hostel Daze. Seven people were killed and at least 12 rescued. The precise cause of the collapse is still under investigation, though preliminary material has indicated construction-related work in or around the basement and waterlogging immediately before the incident....