Gujarat bridge collapse: Morbi police lodge FIR, cite ‘gross negligence, mismanagement’
Citing gross negligence and mismanagement, officers at B-division Morbi city police station Sunday lodged a first information report (FIR) in the wake of the collapse of a suspension bridge across the Machchu river in Gujarat which has led to the death of 133 people so far.
The FIR has named “the agency responsible for maintaining the bridge” and the “management agency” as accused, without naming the company in-charge of maintenance and repair or specific individuals, under IPC sections 304 and 308 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), officers said. The FIR in its accused column also mentions “others as may be revealed during the course of the investigation”.
