India, Dec. 9 -- The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials have decided to recommend their headquarters for crackdown against the contractor and a supervision engineer for ignoring show-cause notices issued against them over negligence in the Delhi-Mumbai expressway accident in which a couple bled to death after remaining trapped inside their mangled car for eight hours.

NHAI officials said that they were given three days to reply and the deadline ended on Monday. "This is enough to show that there was major negligence on their part as they had no information about the crash for eight hours and failed to save the couple," they said.

PK Kaushik, NHAI project director (Sohna) said that senior officials would take a decisio...