The Karnataka High Court Tuesday gave the state government and the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) two weeks’ time to respond to a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) taken up by the court over the January 10 collapse of a Bengaluru Metro pillar which killed a woman and her two-year-old son.
In its first hearing of the case, a bench comprising Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Vishwajit Shetty also ordered to issue notices to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMBP) and the BMRCL contractor Nagarjuna Construction Company over the issue of the pillar collapse
The court registered a PIL on the metro pillar collapse issue on January 24 based on the orders of a bench headed by Karnataka Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale on January 13.
