Reiterating that the Rajkot civic physique have to be held chargeable for the TRP Recreation Zone tragedy that claimed 27 lives, the Gujarat HC Thursday mentioned municipal commissioners have to be held answerable for such incidents.
“Prima facie, our apprehensions have turned out to be considerably true inasmuch as there was a dereliction of obligation on a part of the officers of the company, be it those manning the best rungs of the respective (municipal) companies that’s the (municipal) commissioners,” the bench of Justices Biren Vaishnav and Devan Desai acknowledged whereas listening to a PIL on the fireplace tragedy.
Justice Vaishnav went mentioned, “…the fault ought to lie at their (municipal commissioners’) doorsteps, they can not simply sit of their places of work and cross on the buck.”
The court docket additionally expressed anger after studying that although a demolition discover was served to the gamezone by Rajkot Municipal Company (RMC) in June final yr, no motion was taken for one yr towards the ability by the civic physique, whose commissioner was Anand Patel at the moment.
Referring to the arrest and subsequent suspension of RMC’s city planning officers, Justice Vaishnav acknowledged, “So that you fired the city planning officer. However why was the then municipal commissioner not suspended? The accountability lies on the high. A demolition order was handed in June 2023. What occurred after that? You rested until 27 lives have been misplaced. You probably did nothing for a yr.”
The remarks got here after RMC, in an affidavit, admitted that there have been no periodic checks carried out by the fireplace division at gamezone.