Pune building collapse: Project head of firm that managed waste processing unit arrested
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The Maharashtra Police have arrested the project head of a company running a waste processing unit that collapsed on July 8, killing nine workers in the Pune district, The Indian Express reported on Tuesday.
A first information report was registered against Ashok Gupta, the project head, along with Vijay Sapkal, the safety officer at the plant, under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections pertaining to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and rash or negligent act that endangers human life, PTI reported.
The three-storey administrative building of a waste-to-energy plant in the Moshi area of the Pimpri-Chinchwad city had collapsed when an adjacent mound of garbage fell on it.
Twenty-three employees of Antony Lara Renewable Energy Limited, the company that had been given the contract to run the unit by the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, were inside the building at the time.
Sapkal, the safety officer, was also injured in the incident and is being treated at a hospital, an unidentified police officer was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
Gupta sustained minor injuries and has been arrested, the officer added.
The complaint in the case was filed by officials of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, reported PTI.
It stated that no safety measures were taken despite knowing that the heavy rains could pose a danger to the sanitary landfill at the site.
On Monday, the civic...