Mumbai (Maharashtra), June 12 -- : The Bombay High Court on Friday has ordered a judicial inquiry in the matter of the Malad building collapse that claimed the lives of 12 people.
"It seems that despite this Court taking suo-motu cognizance of an incident of building collapse in Bhiwandi on September 21, 2020, which took as many as 38 lives, to initiate this Public Interest Litigation for ensuring the protection of lives of citizens and having passed several orders seeking to activate the respondents to come down heavily on illegal and unauthorized buildings/structures," the court said.
"This Court is pained to observe that officials employed with the respondents have exhibited extreme lack of solicitude for the rule of law and failed to...