India, Sept. 8 -- Delhi Police have charged Hariram Gupta, the owner of the collapsed Satya Niketan paying guest building, along with others, under three sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after seven people died and five were injured. The case, FIR No 153/26, was registered at South Campus police station under Sections 105, 290, and 125(a). Gupta was arrested on Monday in Bhiwadi, near Gurugram. His wife, Urmila, and son, Mahesh, were also arrested in connection with the case.

The most serious charge is under Section 105, which deals with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Police are not saying the accused meant to kill the students living in Hostel Daze. Instead, the case is based on the idea that the deaths happened becau...