Mumbai, Maharashtra: Post the foot overbridge collapse, a horrific incident of infrastructure failure in the city, two civic engineers were suspended on Saturday.
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A foot overbridge in Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) killed 6 people and left behind 31 critically injured.
The inquiry report said four officers were responsible for poor supervision of the structural audit.
Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta on Friday suspended two civic engineers and ordered an inquiry against them in connection with the bridge collapse incident which claimed six lives.
He also ordered a departmental inquiry against the two engineers besides an executive engineer and two retired chief engineers of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The official gave the directions following an inquiry conducted into the incident by the chief engineer (vigilance).
Executive engineer AR Patil, who had supervised the structural audit of the bridge in 2017-18, and assistant engineer SF Kakulte who had supervised its repair works in 2013-14, were suspended and a full-fledged departmental probe ordered against them, an official said.
Mehta also ordered a departmental inquiry against former chief engineer (bridges) SO Kori and former deputy chief engineer RB Tare—both retired.
The inquiry report said these four officers were responsible for poor supervision of the structural audit in 2017-18.
(With inputs from PTI)
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