Days after three UPSC aspirants died due to flooding in the basement of Rau's IAS coaching centre in Delhi, its owner and CEO Abhishek Gupta, and his co-ordinator Deshpal Singh were arrested on Sunday. The duo was sent to 14 days' judicial custody. But who is Abhishek Gupta?
As per his LinkedIn profile, he has been the CEO of Rau's IAS Study Circle for over 15 years (since February 2009). He started his career as an analyst at Watson Wyatt from 2004 to 2006 and then at Evalueserve for a year as a Business Analyst.
After Evalueserve, he worked at Jones Lang LaSalle in the corporate solutions department for 1.6 years (from Jan 2007 to Jun 2008). Abhishek did his graduation from the Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies between 2001 and 2004. He did his schooling at the Modern School in Delhi between 1988 and 2001.
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in the coaching hub of Old Rajinder Nagar amid a protest by IAS aspirants. The three students died Saturday evening after water from a flooded drain gushed into the basement of the coaching institute where a library was set up.
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