India, Dec. 17 -- The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) penalised a contractor and an engineer Rs.21 lakh in total for negligence in work, which led to a lack of monitoring and the death of a Delhi-based couple who reportedly remained stuck in their vehicle for around eight hours following two collisions on the Nuh section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on December 2, officials said on Tuesday.

NHAI officials said that the replies of both parties to show cause notices were "unsatisfactory and factually incorrect" as they cited fog and poor visibility as causes for failing to spot the car on CCTV cameras, or during physical patrolling, as no such weather condition prevailed during the time of the incident and for hours following...