New Delhi: It had been a hectic few weeks for 19-year-old Neeraj Bawa, who had been campaigning for the upcoming Dusu election and camping with NSUI candidate Vir Chitrath for the past 20 days.
Neeraj and Nishant were paying around Rs 15,000 each for a bed in the building, according to their friends. The lock screen confirmed it was Neeraj’s phone. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Delhi | Silver Rate in Delhi | Bank Holidays in Delhi | Public Holidays in Delhi | Delhi AQI | Weather in Delhi | Petrol Price in Delhi | Diesel Price in Delhi | CNG Price in Delhi | LPG Price in Delhi Stay updated with the latest Delhi news.
Police didn’t let us go inside again, even though we pleaded that our friend was stuck there,” he said. That was when we realised it was his PG that had fallen, and that he was injured,” said Ashok Kumar, a relative. It was as if they were roommates,” said Divvy, a mutual friend of theirs. Locals said the PG, which crumbled like a stack of cards, was one of the most expensive ones in Satya Niketan.
He had just entered his room when suddenly, the walls around him came crashing down. Stuck under a mountain of rubble, he called his friends with a desperate plea: “Bhaiya, please save me. I’ll die here. A few minutes later, their phone rang again. Neeraj had sent his live location, hoping his friends would come and pull him out soon. Vishnu, one of the boys who reached the site, recounted the frantic search for their friend. “We started to clear debris at the spot where the map located him when, surprisingly, a phone was thrown from a small opening in the rubble. “Then people started screaming that the adjacent building was also about to collapse, and we ran for our lives. Neeraj was rescued three hours later, when an NDRF response team pulled him out from the same spot where he had been located by his friends. Back at his home in Jammu’s Kathua, Neeraj’s family had been constantly calling him after hearing that a building had collapsed in Satya Niketan. “Neeraj’s sister, who was watching live coverage of the collapse on TV, recognised the rakhi on his hand as he was taken out. After being pulled out, Neeraj was operated upon at AIIMS Trauma Centre Sunday. The teenager had come to Delhi two years ago to pursue a commerce degree from Motilal Nehru College in DU’s South Campus. There he met Nishant Chib, who was also from Jammu, and they became good friends. Neeraj and Nishant moved into different rooms in Hostel Daze PG, but “they would sit together all day in each other’s rooms. five others were injured, two of whom are critical While seven people died in the collapse. Download the TOI App.
On Sunday, as rain forced them to shelve all plans, Neeraj finally returned to Satya Niketan’s Hostel Daze PG. On Tuesday, Neeraj underwent a second surgery and remains in a critical condition, according to his family.
Nishant told his mother, Seema, that they were separated only by a block of concrete and he could hear Neeraj’s urgent cry for help. The boys were sitting together Sunday afternoon when their PG collapsed. Nishant was rescued a few minutes before Neeraj with a head injury. He is currently receiving treatment at AIIMS and is in a stable condition.