Kolkata flyover flops: Rahul Gandhi to visit accident spot today

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Kolkata: As at least 24 people had been killed due to sudden flopping of flyover in Kolkata. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will make a visit to the accident spot on Saturday. Going into the reasons for the flyover crash, a government statement said: "It is apprehended that one cantilever pier no 40 has shifted due to which two spans covering three piers were affected."
Meanwhile, the police filed murder charges against top officials of the joint venture company, Hyderabad-based IVRCL Infrastructure, which was executing the flyover project and detained at least 10 of its employees. "The charges brought against the company include murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy. So at least10 people, along with R.K. Gopal Nanduri, regional business head, have been detained ," Joint Commissioner of Police Debashish Boral said. Three of them - senior assistant general manager M. Mallikarjun, structural manager Pradip Kumar and assistant manager D. Majumdar - were also arrested . A 23-member special probe squad has been set up to probe the disaster. A police squad reached the company headquarters in Hyderabad to question its officials. The chief engineer and an executive engineer of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority - the state government unit in charge of the JNNURM project - have been placed under suspension. With the ruling Trinamool Congress facing flak, it field its local MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, who argued the project was flawed since its inception during the Left Front ' s tenure but could not be discarded or remodelled due to financial implications. The Bharatiya Janata Party sought a CBI probe, calling the incident an "act of fraud protected by the West Bengal government".
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