Kolkata: The police
arrested four more people in connection with the Kolkata flyover collapse case on
Monday, taking the total number of arrests to eight.
Debashish Boral, Joint
Commissioner of Police (Crime), said: “We have arrested four more officials of
the company (IVCRL) today (Monday).”
The four people
arrested are the officers of the Hyderabad- based construction company
in-charge of building the Vivekanda Road flyover. The names have been revealed
as Gopal Krishna Murti, Director Operations, SK Ratnam, Deputy General Manager
Projects and engineers Shyamal Manna and Bidyut Manna.
Slapping charges including
that of murder against the company, the police had earlier arrested Tanmoy Sil
of AGM Projects, IVRCL, from Burdwan when he was trying to flee and three other
officials— Mallika Arjun, senior AGM, Pradip Kumar Saha, Manager Structural VRF
and Debojyoti Majumdar, Assistant Manager Administration.
Police have registered a case against the
construction firm and sealed its office in the city. Another Assistant
vice-president of PMC, Ranajit Bhattacharjee, who was injured and now
hospitalized after Thursday's mishap, is also under police scanner.
A senior police officer said a police team
visited the company's head office in Hyderabad after the collapse and six IVRCL
officers were served notice. Among them, Krishnamurthy, Ratnam and Assistant
vice-president of PMC, A N Dilip, arrived in the city and were questioned.
A portion of a Vivekananda flyover near
Ganesh Talkies in Girish Park collapsed on the afternoon of March 31 leaving 27
dead and over 150 people injured.
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