Gujarat Bridge Tragedy: The managing director of the Oreva group, which was hired to maintain and repair the bridge in Morbi, Gujarat, which collapsed in October and killed 135 people, Jaysukh Patel, turned himself in at a nearby court today. Following his designation as the case’s primary accused, a warrant for his arrest was issued last week. Since the incident, Patel has been missing. To avoid being apprehended, he filed an appeal for bail.
About 300 people were on the bridge
The British-era suspension bridge over the Machchhu River was renovated, operated, and maintained by Oreva Group, a manufacturer of wall clocks under the Ajanta brand. The bridge collapsed on October 30, four days after it reopened, when the cables snapped. About 300 people, according to the police, were on the bridge.The state government’s special investigation team has documented numerous failures on the part of the company. Rusted cables, broken anchor pins, and loose bolts were not replaced during the renovation, according to forensic tests. According to the Forensic Science Laboratory report, the group did not hire a professional organisation to evaluate the bridge’s load-bearing capacity prior to letting the public use it.
Big fish have not yet been caught
The company maintained the cable-stayed structure as part of “philanthropic activities” and not as a “commercial venture,” it claimed during a hearing in court last week. The tenth suspect in the case to be taken into custody is Jaysukh Patel. Subcontractors, daily wage workers who worked as ticket clerks, and security guards are among those who were previously detained. A claim that the state’s BJP government was protecting the politically powerful industrialist in advance of the assembly elections was made in response to the delay in his arrest. The opposition Congress continues to assert that the “big fish” have not yet been caught.
Morbi civic body has also come under fire
The Gujarat High Court stated that despite the group’s announcement of compensation for the families who lost loved ones, it would not “absolve it of any liability, either directly or vicariously.” The Morbi civic body has also come under fire from the high court for failing to explain how the Oreva Group was granted access to the bridge from December 29, 2021, until its closure on March 7, 2022.
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