CM announces ₹10 lakh for next of kin of deceased, ₹5 lakh for seriously injured

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CM Rekha Gupta interacting with a diligent  astatine  Max Hospital, Saket, connected  Thursday.

CM Rekha Gupta interacting with a diligent astatine Max Hospital, Saket, connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: PTI

A time aft the Malviya Nagar occurrence claimed 21 lives, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Thursday announced compensation of ₹10 lakh for the families of those killed and ₹5 lakh for those who sustained superior injuries.

The announcement came aft the Chief Minister visited survivors undergoing attraction astatine Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, wherever she called for the champion imaginable aesculapian attraction for each patients.

‘Graft successful immoderate departments’

Ms. Gupta said the authorities was facing difficulties due to the fact that of “corruption and negligence” successful immoderate departments. “Strict and effectual measures volition person to beryllium taken to forestall the recurrence of specified incidents, forestall nonaccomplishment of beingness and property, and found Delhi’s presumption arsenic a harmless capital,” work a connection issued by the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).

Ms. Gupta besides instructed officials to marque each indispensable arrangements to guarantee that the mortal remains of the deceased whose families unrecorded successful different States oregon countries are transported with dignity and without delay.

She said the authorities volition instrumentality stricter regulations to curb amerciable constructions.

Ms. Gupta is scheduled to seat a gathering connected Friday to sermon measures to curb unauthorised constructions and violations of occurrence information standards. “The authorities has made it wide that nary gathering owner, official, oregon immoderate different idiosyncratic recovered liable for the Malviya Nagar occurrence incidental volition beryllium spared,” work the CMO statement.

She praised Malviya Nagar residents for their alleviation efforts and directed officials to place and honour specified people. 

Published - June 05, 2026 12:29 americium IST

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