India, May 26 -- The city administration's inaction on the plea for a foot overbridge (FOB) in the Delhi Cantonment over a road used by at least 3,000 soldiers of the Rajputana Rifles makes it a case of criminal negligence. This newspaper on Monday reported how the soldiers are forced to take a path straddling a stench-filled drain under a culvert on a busy stretch of the Ring Road to access their parade ground. The drain floods when it rains, forcing the soldiers to wade through slush and sewage. A request for an FOB has been pending with the administration for at least 12 years and earlier this year, a civil society activist filed a case seeking the court's intervention. The public works department (PWD), responsible for building FOBs a...