TAKING SUO motu cognizance of the Morbi bridge collapse, the Gujarat High Court on Monday issued notices to the state government and local authorities and also sought a status report in the matter by November 14.
The suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Morbi collapsed on October 30, killing 135 people including 55 children.
Taking it up as the first matter as the court reopened after the Diwali vacation, a division bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh Shastri said: “We have taken suo motu cognizance of the Morbi incident. But for the vacation, we would have sat on the same day itself.” At the start of the proceedings, the bench observed a two-minute silence for those who died in Morbi.
