Morbi bridge collapse: Oreva points to ‘highly placed officials ’ as HC pulls up municipality for ‘collusion’ with firm

The Oreva Group, which was permitted to join the suo motu public interest litigation by the Gujarat High Court monitoring the Morbi bridge collapse, submitted on Wednesday that it did not perceive the litigation to be adversarial and offered to compensate the victims, even as it indicated that the company was persuaded by “very highly placed officials” to take up the bridge’s maintenance and operation.

The submission came even as the court pulled up Morbi Municipality and alluded that it worked in collusion with the company which led to the bridge collapse in October last year, killing 135 people.