Gujarat Morbi Bridge Collapse News Live Updates: Nine arrested; FIR lodged against bridge maintenance, operation agencies
Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-day tour to election-bound Gujarat, will be visiting Morbi on Tuesday.
Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat Live Updates: A total of nine people have been arrested in connection with the collapse of the bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi that has claimed at least 134 lives so far, news agency PTI reported on Monday. “We arrested nine people after filing FIR under various sections of the IPC. The arrested includes the managers of Oreva company and ticket clerks,” ANI quoted Ashok Yadav, IG, Rajkot range, as saying. An FIR was registered on charges of culpable homicide against agencies who were given the task of maintenance and operation of the bridge. Morbi Municipality’s chief officer Sandeepsinh Zala said the city-based Oreva Group was given the contract for the renovation and operation of the bridge.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-day tour to election-bound Gujarat, will be visiting Morbi on Tuesday, November 1, in the wake of the bridge collapse over Machchhu river. Speaking in Kevadia, Modi Monday said that he was pained by the tragedy in Morbi.
Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat Live Updates: A total of nine people have been arrested in connection with the collapse of the bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi that has claimed at least 134 lives so far, news agency PTI reported on Monday. “We arrested nine people after filing FIR under various sections of the IPC. The arrested includes the managers of Oreva company and ticket clerks,” ANI quoted Ashok Yadav, IG, Rajkot range, as saying. An FIR was registered on charges of culpable homicide against agencies who were given the task of maintenance and operation of the bridge. Morbi Municipality’s chief officer Sandeepsinh Zala said the city-based Oreva Group was given the contract for the renovation and operation of the bridge.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-day tour to election-bound Gujarat, will be visiting Morbi on Tuesday, November 1, in the wake of the bridge collapse over Machchhu river. Speaking in Kevadia, Modi Monday said that he was pained by the tragedy in Morbi.
Famous for its ceramic and clock manufacturing industries, Morbi has long been a BJP stronghold, with the party winning the seat consistently from 1995 till 2012. In the last Assembly elections, in 2017, while the Congress wrested the constituency, it eventually lost both the winning candidate and the seat to the BJP.
