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Another builder arrested Tuesday, February 20, 2001

AHMEDABAD: The city police arrested one more builder on Sunday. Vijay Mafatlal Solanki, who had built Jashoda Park in Paldi which collapsed in the January 26 killer quake claiming five lives and injuring two persons, was arrested from his residence at Suvidhinath Society in Paldi on Sunday night.

A complaint had been lodged by Darshan Kapadia, a resident, against the builder, structural engineer, architects who work for P Das and associates and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation officials, accusing them of conspiring in approving construction that used inferior quality building material, which led to its collapse.

This takes the total number of arrests to five while three builders have been booked under PASA as the state home ministry decided to invoke this Act to nab builders.