Experts from IIT Kharagpur visit Kolkata flyover collapse

April 13, 2016 22:00

A team of experts from IIT Kharagpur on Wednesday visited the site where the under-construction flyover collapsed last month, to ascertain the cause of the mishap in which 26 people were killed and 89 others injured.

The three-member team from IIT Kharagpur's civil engineering department, led by Prof A P Gupta, inspected the site in the central part of the city for around two hours. Gupta along with other members of the team,

Swapan Majumdar and Sriman Bhattacharya, "climbed on the flyover and inspected several points besides collecting samples from the site," a senior officer of Kolkata Police said.

They would file a report of their findings to the Kolkata Police.

So far, 10 officials of Hyderabad-based construction firm, IVRCL, which was building the flyover, have been arrested by the Kolkata Police and charged under various sections of IPC including 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder).

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