Coaching institutes can’t be ‘death chambers’: Supreme Court

Dismissing the petition as ‘frivolous’ with a cost of ₹1 lakh, SC expanded its scrutiny to pan-India level to ascertain safety norms for coaching institutes

The Supreme Court on Monday said that coaching institutes cannot be “death chambers”, playing with the lives of students who enrol from across the country in pursuit of their career goals, as it set out to examine the mechanism to enforce safety norms on these institutions across the country in the aftermath of a recent tragedy where three young civil service aspirants drowned to death at a coaching institute in Delhi.

The court took up the issue suo motu (on its own) in a petition concerning implementation of fire safety norms for coaching institutions in Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)