Morbi bridge collapse: Supreme Court to hear plea seeking judicial probe on Nov 14

The Supreme Court has listed a plea seeking a probe monitored by a retired judge into Gujarat’s Morbi bridge collapse, which has claimed at least 134 lives, for hearing on November 14. The matter was mentioned on Tuesday before Chief Justice of India (CJI) U U Lalit.

Advocate Vishal Tiwari, in the public interest litigation petition, said the accident depicted the negligence and utter failure of government authorities, Bar and Bench reported.

“From the past decade, various incidents have taken place in our country wherein due to the mismanagement, lapse in duty, negligent maintenance activities, there has been cases of huge public casualties which could have been avoided,” the plea said.