<b>Chargesheets filed against builders of collapsed towers

Chargesheets filed against builders of collapsed towers Saturday, April 14, 2001

Ahmedabad, Apr 13 (PTI) The city police, who registered 60 cases of culpable homicide against builders and others in connection with collapse of nearly 75 multi-storeyed buildings here in the January 26 earthquake that claimed nearly 750 lives, has filed chargesheets against seven of them in a local court.
Police had arrested 76 builders, engineers, architects and civic officials under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), section 420 (cheating), section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code.

The accused were also booked for violating provisions of Gujarat Flat Ownership Act, police said on Friday.

Those chargesheeted on Thursday include B M Oza (builder of Sundervan Apartment) and builders of Vidyalaxmi Apartment Bhadresh Maneklal Trivedi and Moolchand B Patel, police said.

Twenty-four persons had died in the collapse of Sundervan apartment and five in Vidyalaxmi.

Others against whom chargesheets were filed are Jayesh Desai (structural engineer), senior town planner of Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority M M Bhaumik, assistant town planner of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) Jayantilal Sompura and V J Dhanani, an inspector in AMC's town development department.

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