RAJKOT: After two months of stoic silence on his role in the Morbi suspension bridge collapse, Gujarat cops have lastly issued an arrest warrant against Jaysukh Patel, the promoter of Ajanta-Oreva Group, and named him as an implicated in a soon-to-be-filed chargesheet.The police have likewise provided a lookout circular for Patel, whose business was awarded the remodelling, operation, and maintenance contract of the Victorian-era bridge whose collapse on October 30 resulted in 135 individuals drowning in the Machchhu river.Senior authorities said Patel has been averting arrest for the last one-and-a-half months and ignored all summons for questioning.
In the last 2 months, we robbed his house, factory and a number of other properties and other prospective hideouts.
We had actually summoned him several times for questioning.
We protected his arrest warrant under CrPC section 70 and a lookout circular some 10 days back, a senior cops officer told TOI.A three-member special examination team (SIT) formed to probe the mishap exposed the inferior repair work of the bridge.Oreva Group had opened the bridge to the public during the Diwali vacations without intimating the Morbi town or conducting the necessary fitness test of the structure.
The group had actually farmed out the repair work and remodelling work to DevPrakash Solutions, which was not competent to fix the bridge.So far, police have actually detained nine people, consisting of Deepak Parekh and Dinesh Dave, supervisors of Oreva who were responsible for the everyday management of the bridge.
The others held are Prakash Parmar and his kid Devang of DevPrakash Solutions, ticket clerks and security guards.Patel bail plea A Morbi court on Saturday adjourned hearing on an anticipatory bail plea submitted by Patel to February 1 as the prosecution sought time to submit its reply.
Households of around 10 victims have actually likewise sent an application to oppose Patels bail.