IIT panel, formed to look into the Kolkata flyover collapse, has submitted its report Faulty design, inconsistency in material and lack of quality check caused the collapse, the report says The two KMDA officials, chief engineer Priyatosh Bhattacharyya and executive engineer Santanu Mondal (both AD Sector), were in charge of supervising the “quality” of the construction material, sources said.Earlier, the murder and the attempt to murder charges, under which the ten officers of the construction firm IVRCL were previously arrested, were dropped from the chargesheet submitted at the Bankshall Court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dr Madhumita Basu.Instead, the ten have been charged under IPC sections 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) in the over 2000-page chargesheet.Besides IPC sections 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder), the ten IVRCL staff were also slapped with 120B (criminal conspiracy). Kolkata Flyover collapse case study Biz Lead: SURYATRISHA GHOSH YASWITHA PONNALURU (1333342) SRIKANTH MATTA (1341890) SINDHU N (1352982) VAIBHAV JAIN (1359768) PRASANATMA P (1363095) Introduction Introduction On 31st March 2016, An under-construction flyover collapses at Traffic This charge, too, has been dropped.Asked about the change of sections in the chargesheet, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Vishal Garg refused to comment, saying the matter was “sub-judice”.IVRCL director (operations) Gopal Krishnamurthy, deputy general manager (project monitoring cell) S K Ratnam, assistant general manager Mallikaarjun Rao, assistant vice-president (PMC) Ranajit Bhattacharjee were arrested in connection with the March 31 collapse.Also arrested were IVRCL’s assistant manager Debjyoti Majumdar, civil execution Niloy Roy, structure manager Pradip Kumar Saha, project manager Tanmoy Sil and senior engineers Shyamal Manna and Bidyut Manna.Around 241 witnesses were questioned in connection with the framing of the chargesheet.The special investigation team (SIT) formed to probe the collapse is learnt to be waiting for two reports – from Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) and National Test House. While the former is looking into the flyover’s design for any existing dispute, the latter is overseeing the quality of the material used in the construction of the flyover. “We are expecting the reports in another 15 days and after that, a supplementary charge sheet is likely to be filed,” an official said.Sources in Lalbazar police said the investigation has thrown up “ample evidence of incompetence and negligence on the part of IVRCL”.Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved Kolkata flyover collapse case: Construction company staff won’t face murder charge Published: June 29, 2016 4:17:19 am The murder charge against ten officers of a construction firm was dropped as Kolkata Police Tuesday filed its first chargesheet in the collapse of under-construction Vivekananda flyover that killed 26 people in March this year. On 30 March 2016, one day before the collapse, concrete was laid on the bridge.On 1 April 2016, the construction company IVRCL was charged with murder, under section 302 of the Anandapran Gupta, former head of the department of civil engineering at Disaster in Kolkata which occurred on 31 March 2016 On 31 March 2016, a 150 m (490 ft) steel span of the under-construction Vivekananda Road The construction for the 2.2-kilometre (1.4 mi) Vivekananda Road flyover was contracted in 2008 and began in 2009. The murder charge against ten officers of a construction firm was dropped as Kolkata Police Tuesday filed its first chargesheet in the collapse of under-construction Vivekananda flyover that killed 26 people in March this year.In a related development, the police arrested two senior officials of Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), taking the total number of arrests in the case to 12.