Three dead as water tank collapses on them in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Aug 03: Three men died after a water tank from a four-storey building collapsed on them near Shivajinagar bus stand here, police said on Thursday.
The deceased have been identified as Arul (40), Kota Nageshwar Rao (32) and Karan Thapa (32), they said.
According to the police, the incident took place around 10.30 pm on Wednesday when some people were standing near a street food vendor whose pushcart was on the footpath adjacent to the building.
Suddenly, the water tank along with a part of the parapet wall collapsed on the street food vendor and his customers. The vendor and three of his customers sustained severe injuries in the incident. However, the vendor managed to escape from the spot. The three men who sustained injuries were rushed to a nearby hospital where both Arul and Kota Nageshwar Rao were declared brought dead, a senior police officer said.
Karan succumbed to his injuries during the course of treatment on Thursday, he said.
''We have registered a case under section 304 A (causing death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code in connection over the incident and further investigation is underway,'' Bheemashankar S Guled, Deputy Commissioner of Police (East), Bengaluru said.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
