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Thane building collapse: Death toll 48; two
suspended
Friday April 05, 2013 09:24:12 PM,
IANS
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Thane (Maharashtra): as the death toll in Thursday evening's seven-storey building
collapse rose to 48, two officials were suspended Friday for not
heeding complaints regarding the unauthorised structure.
Civic and police officials told IANS that Deputy Municipal
Commissioner Deepak Chavan and Senior Police Inspector K.P. Naik
of Shil-Daighar Police Station had been suspended.
"Another official, the ward officer of the zone, was suspended in
January by the civic commissioner for laxity in acting against
complaints of unauthorised structures," a civic official told
IANS.
Disaster management and fire brigade officials continued rescue
operations Friday, over 24 hours after the tragedy.
"We have pulled out 48 dead bodies. We have rescued 59 people. At
least 25 people are still trapped under the rubble. We plan to
rescue them slowly to avoid any more injury," National Disaster
Response Force Commander Alok Awasthi said here.
A Thane disaster management official said while efforts were on to
rescue those trapped under the debris, many victims were yet to be
identified.
"Eight to 10 victims who were critical have been shifted to
hospital in Mumbai. We pulled out many children," he added.
At least 10 children succumbed to their injuries in the incident,
police said.
While civic officials admitted that the building was unauthorised,
they blamed the builders who went ahead with the construction
despite not having relevant permissions.
When asked if the building was on forest land, a civic official
confirmed the same stating that the forest department did not heed
to its correspondence.
"We had written to the concerned forest official requesting him to
look into the unauthorised construction of the building in October
last year. We had even sent a reminder next month but did not get
any response," he told IANS.
The official said that in March, a notice was slapped on builder
Adnan Seth, one of the partners in the company constructing the
structure.
A forest official said that the land was privately owned and did
not come under the purview of the forest department.
Police have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting
to murder against the two builders, Jamil Qureshi and Salim Shaikh,
who have promptly gone underground.
Civic sources also said that sub-standard material was used in
construction of the building and that it had no occupancy
certificate. They also hinted at the involvement of politically
motivated fourth party.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Deputy Chief
Minister Ajit Pawar and Home Minister R.R. Patil visited the spot.
Termed as one of the worst building disasters in the state in the
past decade, activists from the area said that there were scores
of such building in the Mumbra-Kalyan region due to the
builder-officials-police-politicians nexus.
Thane houses many heavy industries.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislator from the area Ramesh
Patil alleged that the municipal commissioner did not pay heed to
his complaints about the building being unauthorised and unfit for
occupation.
There were around 35 families residing in the building.
Local activist Mangal Patil had also registered repeated
complaints with the Thane Municipal Corporation about the
unauthorised structure, but to no avail. Speaking to mediapersons,
Mangal Patil claimed that there were over 100 such buildings in
the area.
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