Morbi (Gujarat): In the Morbi bridge accident case of Gujarat, the Additional Public Prosecutor has made a big disclosure on Wednesday. Additional Public Prosecutor HS Panchal said one of the managers of the Oreva company told the court that the tragedy was caused by a "divine wrath". Two managers of Orewa company have been arrested in Morbi bridge accident. Along with this, it has also been revealed in the court that the cable wire bridges were not in a condition to be opened to the general public, they were rusty.

According to the news of news agency ANI, in the report of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), the officer (IO) said that the cable bridge was rusting. The investigating officer said that only the floor of the bridge was repaired and the cables were not replaced. Even the greasing of the wires of these cables was not done. The FSL official said that prima facie it was an old cable.

When asked about the accused who were sent to police custody on Wednesday, Additional Public Prosecutor HS Panchal said that out of the four people who were remanded in police custody, two are managers of Oreva Company and two others did the construction work of the bridge. did. Besides this, the five others who have been sent to judicial custody are security personnel and ticket sellers. According to Additional Public Prosecutor HS Panchal, the investigating officer (IO) in the FSL report said that the tender process for the maintenance of the bridge has been completed. The contract was given directly to the company without it.

A trial court in Gujarat's Morbi on October 30 sent four of the nine people arrested in connection with the death of around 135 people in the collapse of the century-old bridge to police custody and the remaining five to judicial custody till November 5. Have given. Of the four persons in police custody, two are managers of the Orewa company, which opened the bridge to visitors after seven months of maintenance work, and the other two are construction contractors.

On the question of investigation of the bridge accident, Morbi Superintendent of Police Rahul Tripathi said that we are interrogating all the four accused in our custody and we are trying to establish the responsibility of various kinds of lapses in the renovation of the bridge. We are conducting a thorough investigation and if anyone's role comes to the fore, a case will be registered against him and arrested. He further said that we have submitted a scientific report in the court, but it cannot be made public, because after making it public, further investigation may be affected.

Gujarat Police has registered an FIR under IPC sections 304 and 308 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) in the Morbi bridge collapse incident. Earlier, the Gujarat government had constituted a five-member committee to probe the bridge collapse incident. Police Inspector Prakashbhai Dekawadia of Morbi-B Division said that Indian Penal Code sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide), and 114 (attendant to commit offense) against the maintenance and management agencies of the bridge. An FIR has been registered under