Mulund Metro mishap: engg, supervisor granted bail
MUMBAI, April 9 -- The sessions court on Tuesday granted bail to a site supervisor and a site engineer booked in connection with parapet collapse incident at a metro site in Mulund on February 14, which killed one person.
While engineer Saurabh Singh and supervisor Prashant Haribhau Bhoir were both employed by Milan Road Buildtech, the firm carrying out construction work at the site, they were not on duty at the time of the incident, and no fruitful purpose would be served by keeping them in jail, the court noted.
The incident occurred around 12.20pm on February 14 on the arterial LBS Road in Mulund, when a portion of a precast parapet segment collapsed on the road beneath, killing one person and injuring three others.
Advocate Suvarna Avhad-Vast, who represented Singh and Bhoir, told the court that they had been falsely implicated in the case, as on the date of the incident, they were not on duty. Both accused had extended all possible assistance to the rescue team and victims and helped arrange a crane immediately after the incident, she said.
The public prosecutor opposed the plea, claiming the accused duo were involved in the offence and if bail was granted to them, they would not remain present or co-operate with the probe.
The court, however, said that apparently the incident occurred because of the mistake of the welder, who has been arrested in the case, and no fruitful purpose would be served by continuing to keep the two accused in jail, as nothing was to be recovered from them....
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