{"id":15554,"date":"2026-06-01T23:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/saket-building-collapse-71-year-old-owner-arrested-as-death-toll-reaches-6-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:14:16","slug":"saket-building-collapse-71-year-old-owner-arrested-as-death-toll-reaches-6-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/saket-building-collapse-71-year-old-owner-arrested-as-death-toll-reaches-6-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Saket building collapse: 71-year-old owner arrested as death toll reaches 6 | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131447602,imgsize-387566,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/devastating-five-storey-collapse-in-delhis-mehrauli-that-claimed-six-lives.jpg\" alt=\"Saket building collapse: 71-year-old owner arrested as death toll reaches 6\" title=\"devastating five-storey collapse in Delhi's Mehrauli that claimed six lives\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"devastating five-storey collapse in Delhi's Mehrauli that claimed six lives\">devastating five-storey collapse in Delhi&#8217;s Mehrauli that claimed six lives<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The 71-year-old owner of the five-storey building that collapsed in Delhi\u2019s Mehrauli, killing six people, was arrested on Monday. While six people lost their lives in the incident, seven others sustained injuries.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The accused has been identified as Karamveer, 71, son of Mangal Singh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Suneel Kumar Singh, commandant of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), said debris-clearing operations are currently underway. He added that no trace of any living person was found under the rubble, despite the use of sniffer dogs and advanced equipment during the search operation, ANI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>\u201cThe work of removing debris is underway. The NDRF team is on the ground and is on standby. <!-- -->If needed, they will continue their work. Sniffer dogs are used to locate survivors trapped inside. They track scents and provide indicators that dog handlers can interpret. However, in our search using dogs, no survivor was indicated. Therefore, using all our equipment, whether mechanical or canine resources, we haven\u2019t found any trace of a live victim,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Information about the building collapse was first received on Saturday evening at around 7.35 pm by beat staff during routine patrol in Saidulajab village. Police acted swiftly, following which rescue operations were launched.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">(With ANI inputs)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/saket-building-collapse-71-year-old-owner-arrested-as-death-toll-reaches-6\/articleshow\/131447430.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>devastating five-storey collapse in Delhi&#8217;s Mehrauli that claimed six lives NEW DELHI: The 71-year-old owner of the five-storey building that collapsed in Delhi\u2019s Mehrauli, killing six people, was arrested on Monday. While six people lost their lives in the incident, seven others sustained injuries.The accused has been identified as Karamveer, 71, son of Mangal Singh.Suneel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}