NHRC holds MCD responsible for building collapse

National Human Rights Commission today held the then MCD responsible for a building collapse in Karol Bagh area in 2012 in which four people lost their lives and issued a notice to Delhi Government to show cause why it should not be asked to pay monitory relief to the kin of the victims.
According to an NHRC statement released today, it has issued a notice to the Delhi Government through its Chief Secretary, to show cause why the Commission should not recommend Rs three lakh each as monetary relief to the families of the four persons who died in a building collapse incident on March 30, 2012 at Prasad Nagar in the Karol Bagh Zone of Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

The Chief Secretary has been further directed to submit a report stating therein the action taken or contemplated to be taken against the officers responsible for the negligence. He has been given six weeks time to respond.
"After careful consideration of the expert opinions from M/s Shriram Institute for Industrial Research Pvt. Ltd., Structural Engineer of M/s Sheltera Consultants Pvt. Ltd. And IIT Delhi, Justice D. Murugesan, Member of the Commission found that the main cause of the collapse of the building was inadequate structural design and insufficient strength of concrete used," the statement said.
The Commission has also observed that the callousness, negligence and inaction on the part of MCD officials for the collapse of the structure was clearly established.