The Silent Phone: Engineer Alok’s Tragic End in Saket

In the aftermath of the building collapse near Saket Metro Station, a haunting story has emerged of a phone that rang throughout the night. Alok Verma, a promising civil engineer who was studying at a coaching institute within the building, became one of the three fatal casualties of the disaster. As news of the collapse broke, his frantic friends and classmates tried calling him repeatedly, hoping he was trapped but safe. One friend shared that Alok’s phone continued to ring until 11:00 PM on Saturday night, giving them a false sense of hope that he might pick up and say he was okay. However, after 11 PM, the phone went silent forever. The loss of Alok has sent shockwaves through the student community in South Delhi, leaving his peers in deep mourning over a life cut short by negligence and structural failure.