The Delhi Police has sought two days of custodial interrogation of Tyagi and co-accused Sudhanshu Lovenish Kumar, who is associated with the operation of the paying-guest (PG) facility in the building. Advocate Shubham Tyagi, who had been evading arrest in the Satya Niketan building collapse case, surrendered before the Patiala House Court on Friday, a day after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected.
The FIR was registered at South Campus Police Station under Sections 105, 290 and 125(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), initially against unidentified persons. However, the prosecution placed before the court a rent agreement dated September 6, 2025, executed between building owner Urmila Gupta and Tyagi for the second and third floors of the building.
Tyagi had told the court that he was an advocate practising at the Patiala House Courts, had no criminal antecedents and was only an investor in the PG business run by his friend Lovenish Kumar. As the investigation progressed, police arrested building owners Urmila Gupta, Hari Ram Gupta and Mahesh Gupta alias Sanjay, contractor Sanoj and PG operator Sudhanshu Lovenish Kumar. The court observed that the agreement had been executed on the same day as another rent agreement relied upon by Tyagi and contained substantially similar terms. Both agreements were also attested by the same notary.
14 at Satya Niketan Market in Moti Bagh-II, where the boys’ PG was being run. The court noted that a separate rent agreement showed Tyagi as a co-lessee of the second and third floors of Building No. Tyagi’s surrender came after Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Partap Singh Laler on Thursday dismissed his anticipatory bail plea, observing that material gathered during the investigation prima facie contradicted his claim that he was only an investor in the PG business.
