{"id":274217,"date":"2019-05-14T06:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274217"},"modified":"2019-05-14T07:09:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T07:09:47","slug":"csmt-bridge-collapse-firm-pointed-out-that-fob-was-weak-says-auditor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/csmt-bridge-collapse-firm-pointed-out-that-fob-was-weak-says-auditor\/","title":{"rendered":"CSMT bridge collapse: Firm pointed out that FoB was weak, says auditor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Structural auditor Neerajkumar Desai on Monday approached the sessions court for bail, claiming that his firm in 2016 pointed out that the CSMT foot overbridge (FoB), which collapsed on March 14, killing seven people, was structurally weak. He also alleged that repairs carried out by the civic body were the ultimate cause of damage.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Azad Maidan police submitted its first charge sheet. The police have arrested four people, including 46-year-old Desai and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution had questioned the audit done by Desai\u2019s firm and said they did not conduct some important tests, including steel non-destructive testing (NDT) to check the strength of the bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structural auditor Neerajkumar Desai on Monday approached the sessions court for bail, claiming that his firm in 2016 pointed out that the CSMT foot overbridge (FoB), which collapsed on March 14, killing seven people, was structurally weak. He also alleged that repairs carried out by the civic body were the ultimate cause of damage. Last week, Azad Maidan police submitted its first charge sheet. The police have arrested four people, including 46-year-old Desai and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) engineers. The prosecution had questioned the audit done by Desai\u2019s firm and said they did not conduct some important tests, including steel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}