Referring to the recent bridge collapse in Mumbai, the Bombay High Court Wednesday asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the railways why such incidents continued to take place despite their claims of regular structural audits.
A bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice NM Jamdar said such accidents were apparently a result of lack of coordination between the two agencies.
On March 14, a foot overbridge near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus collapsed killing six persons and injuring 31.
The observation came after Suresh Kumar, the counsel for Central Railway, told the court that the bridge collapse was "a lapse on the BMC's part".
However, the bench said, "There is no point of blaming anyone now. To us it seems apparent such accidents continue to happen because agencies do not coordinate with each other."
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