Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court on Tuesday asked the state government and the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) to respond within two weeks to a public interest litigation (PIL) taken up by the court on its own over the collapse of a Metro pillar which killed a woman and her two-year-old son.
The high court on January 13 had taken suo motu cognisance of two incidents — death of a woman and her two-year-old son, and the formation of a sinkhole due to ongoing work of the Namma Metro project — and ordered the initiation of a PIL petition to examine the safety measures in place while executing the project.
In its first hearing of the case on Tuesday, a bench comprising Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Vishwajit Shetty also ordered issuing of notices to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and the BMRCL contractor Nagarjuna Construction Company over the pillar collapse.
