{"id":557801,"date":"2023-02-23T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=557801"},"modified":"2023-02-23T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:26:02","slug":"gujarat-hc-orders-oreva-group-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-to-kin-of-morbi-bridge-collapse-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gujarat-hc-orders-oreva-group-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-to-kin-of-morbi-bridge-collapse-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat HC orders Oreva Group to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to kin of Morbi bridge collapse victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday ordered clock-making firm Oreva Group to pay Rs 10 lakh as interim compensation to each family of 135 victims, who were killed in the Morbi suspension bridge collapse, and Rs 2 lakh to 56 individuals who sustained injuries. The amount is in addition to Rs 10 lakh already paid by the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Oreva Group&#8217;s managing director Jaysukh Patel through his lawyer had offered to pay Rs 5 lakh to the families of deceased and Rs 1 lakh to those injured. However, the division bench led by chief justice Sonia Gokani were not satisfied with the offer. Citing several judgements including in Bhopal Gas Leak and Uphar Cinema tragedies,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday ordered clock-making firm Oreva Group to pay Rs 10 lakh as interim compensation to each family of 135 victims, who were killed in the Morbi suspension bridge collapse, and Rs 2 lakh to 56 individuals who sustained injuries. The amount is in addition to Rs 10 lakh already paid by the state government. Oreva Group&#8217;s managing director Jaysukh Patel through his lawyer had offered to pay Rs 5 lakh to the families of deceased and Rs 1 lakh to those injured. However, the division bench led by chief justice Sonia Gokani were not satisfied [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557801","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=557801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}