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Inquiry report on building collapse to be placed in Assembly

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Press Trust of India Chennai
Last Updated : Mar 17 2015 | 10:57 PM IST
The Madras High Court was today informed that the report of the Justice R. Reghupathy Commission of Inquiry on the multi-storeyed building collapse at Mowlivakkam will be placed in the Tamil Nadu Assembly during its budget session.
When PILs, filed by DMK leader M K Stalin and 'Traffic' Ramaswamy seeking a CBI probe into the matter, came up before a before the First Bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M.M. Sundresh, the Advocate General A.L. Somayaji submitted that a further time of one month was required to complete the probe in the above case.
When the court referred to the submission made by Counsel for Ramaswamy that the buildings where violations were detected, the builder's name and particulars of the building should be uploaded on the 'CMDA website' enabling purchasers to know about it, the AG submitted that the matter would be looked into "to ensure that those particulars are made available on the website promptly."
The bench then posted the PILs for further hearing to June 30.
The multi-storeyed building collapse at nearby Mowlivakkam in June last year claimed 61 lives.

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First Published: Mar 17 2015 | 10:57 PM IST

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