Bhubaneswar: Lokayukta Odisha on Friday decided to start prosecution of six people, including four government employees, in a special court for alleged criminal violations that lead to the collapse of the construction of the construction under the Balangir Regency which killed two and injured two more.
Anti-corruption Watchdog has requested the alertness of the state to submit a charging sheet against them.
Citing a report of investigation into the collapse into the collapse of part of the bridge above the Suktel River on Jalan Tamia-Mudalsar in Balangir Regency on 29 April 2020, Lokayukta said, “Obviously the daytime that the work below the standard is carried out in the construction of the bridge by the executant agent in collusion Officials of the Rural Development Department for the wrong profit Assistant Executive Engineers of Tapan Beyera and Ranjit Junior Engineer Bags do not object to the use of cement and stems below work in work.
Similarly, the Braj Bhushan Kumar account officer did not show excess payment compared to the cement used and did not check the non-submission of purchasing vouchers.
Sanjay Agarwal and Ganesh Nair, Managing Director and Project Manager, from private agents who carry out work, do not follow the terms and conditions for financial benefits.
Lokayukta has taken Awareness of Suo Motu to media reports and has ordered the alertness of the state to investigate the bridge collapse.
The puplings suggested by the action under the prevention of the Corruption Law and 120 (B) IPC (criminal conspiracy) of the people involved, the Lokayukta command stated.
Two months before collapsing, when deflection was noted on the bridge in February, the rural development department has asked a Delhi-based expert to check it out.
Experts, V K Raina, have shown poor quality and suggest that some of the superstructures are destroyed and reconstructed.
But the advice is ignored.
The government has gave bridge sanctions under Baju Setu Yojana in 2013-14 and the e-tender was resolved to build a bridge with an estimated cost of Rs 6.99 Crore.