The Supreme Court docket has listed a plea in search of a probe monitored by a retired decide into Gujarat’s Morbi bridge collapse, which has claimed at the least 134 lives, for listening to on November 14. The matter was talked about on Tuesday earlier than Chief Justice of India (CJI) U U Lalit.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari, within the public curiosity litigation petition, mentioned the accident depicted the negligence and utter failure of presidency authorities, Bar and Bench reported.
“From the previous decade, numerous incidents have taken place in our nation whereby because of the mismanagement, lapse in responsibility, negligent upkeep actions, there was circumstances of big public casualties which may have been prevented,” the plea mentioned.
The Morbi bridge over the Machchhu river in Gujarat collapsed on Sunday (October 30) night. The 141-year-old suspension bridge was reopened simply final week following repairs and upkeep by the Oreva Group.
Citing gross negligence and mismanagement, officers at B-division Morbi metropolis police station Sunday lodged a primary info report (FIR). The FIR acknowledged, “As a consequence of their gross negligence and careless act of mismanagement, and regardless of figuring out the risk to the lifetime of residents posed by the bridge, the bridge was opened on October 26, as a result of which the unlucky incident occurred.”
In accordance with Bar and Bench, the petition highlighted the necessity to conduct danger evaluation of outdated bridges and monuments in India to be surveyed and assessed so as to keep away from such accidents. It additionally sought the formation of a Development Incident Investigation Division for conducting immediate investigation in circumstances comparable to this one.