The weak foundation was the cause of the crack and tilting of the nine-storey police quarters at Binny Mills, according to an engineering expert. The police quarters premises has three blocks: A, B and C. The ‘B’ Block developed a 1.5-foot-wide crack and tilted by six inches on Saturday.
Recent accidents at multi-storeyed buildings in Bengaluru have exposed the lacunae in the building by-laws adopted by the BBMP, structural and civil engineering experts say. While the civic body invoked the National Building Code, 2016, to prohibit modifications to balconies following the deadly fire in Devarachikkanahalli on September 20, it ignores the same statute when it