Kolkata flyover tragedy: Arrested Govt. engineers sent to police custody

The Kolkata Police on Tuesday evening arrested KMDA (AD Sector)'s chief engineer Priyotosh Bhattacharya and executive engineer Santanu Mondal for their direct involvement with the incident.

The KMDA, the statutory planning and development authority for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) which is undertaken by WB government's Municipal Affairs and Urban Development ministry, has placed these engineers on suspension since Apr 1.

Besides booking the engineers, Kolkata Police on Tuesday submitted a nearly 2600-page charge sheet in connection with the massacre before a city court, slapping unintentional murder charges on ten arrested official-engineers of construction company IVRCL.

They were charged under several IPC sections, including 304 (Culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 308 (Attempt to commit culpable homicide), 427 (Mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), in the charge sheet.

Meanwhile, the charge sheet mentioned that no suspect, involved in the case, was absconding.

On March 31, an under-construction portion of Vivekananda Flyover collapsed in Kolkatas Girish Park area, killing at least 26 people and leaving many others injured.

As many as 10 senior officials and engineers of Hyderabad-based construction company IVRCL were arrested in connection with the case and they all are in judicial custody.

However, these engineers of KMDA will be produced to the same court again on July 7.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)