Rajkot: IL&FS subsidiary, 2 firms booked for flyover wall collapse that killed two
Five months after a section of a flyover wall collapsed in Rajkot and killed two men, the police have booked West Gujarat Expressway Limited, a subsidiary of the troubled IL&FS, and two engineering firms engaged as consultants for the project.
On the basis of a complaint filed by Pankaj Kumar Roy, project director of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in Rajkot, the Aji Dam police station in Rajkot city have booked WGEL, Sai Consulting Engineers Private Limited (SCEPL) and Vadia Techno-Engineering Services Limited/Varad Associates under IPC Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 114 (common intent).
While WGEL is the concessioner which had won the bid to widen the National Highway 27 section from Rajkot to Jetpur, SCEPL had served as the independent engineering consultant for the project of the flyover bridge at Aji Dam Chowkadi. Vadia Techno-Engineering and Varad Associates are the present independent engineers for the highway stretch.
