INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NOIDA: Four of the five workers critically injured in the construction lift collapse at a housing society site in Greater Noida died on
Saturday, taking the toll from Friday morning's accident to eight
A ninth worker - with grievous head injuries - is battling for life in the ICU, reports Advitya Bahl.The lift carrying the nine workers to
upper storeys of Tower C-10 at Amrapali Dream Valley's Phase 2 in Techzone 4 crashed to the ground after reaching the 14th floor
Four workers were declared dead at District Hospital on Friday while five others were put on ventilator support
Amid allegations that the lift had not been serviced despite a snag, a GM of Girdhari Lal Construction - the firm carrying out the
construction - was arrested on Saturday.GM of construction firm arrested for negligenceThe FIR in the lift collapse case mentions nine
and Aditya Chandra, general managers of the state-run NBCC; Rahul, the mechanical in-charge; Sunil, the general site in-charge; and
Shailendra, a senior official of the lift company
They have been booked under sections 304 (provides punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 308 (attempt to commit
culpable homicide), 337 (injury due to negligence), 338 (grievous hurt due to negligence), 287 (negligence related to machinery) and 34
(acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC and under provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment (CLA) Act
The lift, the DCP said, was being operated even when it rained heavily on Friday morning
He had not repaired the lift even after workers informed him that it had malfunctioned a few days earlier
Like other Amrapali projects, flats at Dream Valley were being completed under a Supreme Court-monitored process, for which the staterun
NBCC had given a sub-contract to Girdhari Lal Construction
The offices of NBCC and the private company carrying out the construction on its behalf have been closed at the project site
Police have also written to the Greater Noida Authority to carry out an in spection of safety measures in place
It has also come to the fore that one of the workers who died was only 14, triggering apprehension that children were being employed at the
The eight workers who have died so far are either from UP or Bihar
Kuldeep Pal (20) of Kannauj, Maan Ali (20) of Balrampur, Mohammad Ali Khan (18) from Amroha and the minor boy from Meerut succumbed to
Doctors said Kaif (21) of Meerut is on life support
District magistrate Manish Kumar Verma said strict action would be taken against anyone found guilty
Their bodies are being sent to their hometowns for the last rites
Police have initiated an investigation
NBCC and the Supreme Court-appointed receiver of Amrapali projects have announced a compensation of Rs 25 lakh each for the families of the
