Morbi bridge collapse: The state Urban Development Department has suspended Chief Officer of Morbi Municipality Sandipsinh Zala, said Morbi District Collector GT Pandya on Friday.
The police raised questions about the contract between the Morbi municipal authority and the Oreva group, noting that the contract was entered into without any bidding process and contained no specifics on the work to be done.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pull up the Gujarat government to come clean on the "sloppy investigation process" in the recent Morbi bridge collapse tragedy in which 135 people were killed and
Clockmaker Oreva, which renovated the century-old suspension bridge in Gujarat's Morbi, is accused of killer negligence that led to its collapse four days after its reopening and the death of 135 people on Sunday. Its owners remain missing.