Turned Blind Eye When Promoters Undertook Unauthorised Constructions: Calcutta HC Directs Disciplinary Inquiry Against KMC Officials Over Building Collapse

The Calcutta High Court has directed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to take steps including initiating a disciplinary inquiry and potentially suspending the officials who were involved in overseeing illegal constructions in Garden Reach, where the collapse of an under-construction building led to fatalities. A division bench held: The said officers appear to have remained indifferent to...