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Business News/ Industry / Infrastructure/  Kolkata flyover collapse: 3 IVRCL officials held on murder charges; toll rises to 24
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Kolkata flyover collapse: 3 IVRCL officials held on murder charges; toll rises to 24

The toll rose to 24 with the recovery of three more bodies from the debris on Friday

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Photo: PTI

Kolkata: A day after an under-construction flyover collapsed in Kolkata leaving at least 24 dead, the police on Friday arrested three top officials of a Hyderabad based company which was building the flyover and slapped murder charges on them.

The toll rose to 24 with the recovery of three more bodies from the debris on Friday.

Earlier the police had detained 10 officials of the construction company IVRCL’s Kolkata office for questioning and later arrested three of them, a senior Kolkata Police officer said.

The three—assistant general manager Mallikaarjun, assistant manager Debjyoti Manjumdar and structure manager Pradip Kumar Saha—were arrested under the Indian Penal Code sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) and others.

They will be produced before a court on Saturday.

Seven other officials of the company are still detained, the officer said, adding that a team of Kolkata Police has left for Hyderabad to meet IVRCL top bosses.

The state government also suspended a chief engineer and an executive engineer of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority who were involved in the construction of the flyover pending completion of the probe which the government ordered on Thursday.

Agencies engaged in rescue work said that there was a possibility of a person being trapped inside a truck which is still under a girder. Army personnel along with police, disaster management team, the National Disaster Response Force and fire brigade personnel engaged in rescue work throughout the night on Thursday, and pulled out three more bodies from under the rubble of concrete, a police officer said on Friday.

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Published: 02 Apr 2016, 12:55 AM IST
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