DelhiMunicipal Corporation of Delhi orders all illegal four-floor buildings sealed.
A one-day order proves the capacity existed all along, unused until deaths forced it.
Sealing evicts the same students whose paying-guest rooms exist only because licensed housing near the university falls short.
Protesters vandalized the corporation’s headquarters demanding the commissioner’s resignation, with no sealing count released yet.
How each outlet framed it
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- News18 leans critical
- emphasizes private PG accommodation safety compliance gaps, positions university as victim-supporter not institutional actor
- The Times of India
- MCD orders immediate sealing of 4+ floor illegal constructions, threatens official dismissal for oversight
- Economic Times leans critical
- ABVP students storm MCD headquarters, vandalize premises demanding commissioner resignation over safety lapse
Sources: News18, The Times of India, Economic Times