<b>Chargesheets filed in three more building-collapse cases

Chargesheets filed in three more building-collapse cases Thursday, May 3, 2001

AHMEDABAD: Three more chargesheets were filed on Tuesday before the city trial court in connection with three cases of collapsed buildings at Maninagar in Ahmedabad.

The cases pertain to Mangalam Flats, Divyalaya, and 15 August Avenue which collapsed during the January 26 quake killing 35 people and injuring several others.

The accused named in the Mangalam case includes builder Maganbhai Shamjibhai Patel, who was arrested on March 2 on charges of culpable homicide, has been in jail since then.

Others who have been named in the case and shown in column two (accused but not arrested) of the chargesheet include structural engineer Shailesh Patel, and two officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. The AMC officials are assistant TDO Ashok Modi and town development inspector M R Shah.

Those chargesheeted in the Divyalaya case include Kartik Gunwant Pasawala, Mihir Jagdish Shah and Vinod Chand Gandhi, the three builders who were arrested by the police on March 2 and are in judicial custody till date.

The other accused who have been shown as 'not-arrested' include another builder partner Nimish D Parikh, structural engineer Sachin Shah, civil engineer of the building Gopal Pipalwa and four other AMC officials.

The AMC officials named include ward inspectors Dinesh Patel and M R Shah, deputy town development officer Ashwin B Shah and assistant TDO Porus B Gandhi.

Among those who have been chargesheeted in the 15 August Avenue case includes builder Nandubhai Manilal Shah, who at present is in judicial custody. Others named in the chargesheet, but not arrested yet, include structural engineer B M Patel, architect K J Shah. Officials of the AMC named in column 2 include town development inspector Dinesh Patel and assistant town development officer Amit Engineer. According to the police, the plan of the building was passed in 1995 and it was ready for occupancy around 1997.

While the collapse of Mangalam left 22 dead, 10 people were killed in Divyalaya and three in 15 August Avenue.

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