Mystery of "Stolen" BMTC bus shelter on Cunningham Road Solved; Shelter found in BBMP stockyard
Bengaluru: The case surrounding the "stolen" BMTC bus shelter on Cunningham Road has been resolved. It was revealed that the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) had removed the structure due to safety concerns and kept it at a stockyard, dispelling claims of theft.
Police Commissioner B Dayananda, speaking on Tuesday, expressed his confusion over the filed theft complaint when BBMP itself had removed the shelter. On September 30, N Ravi Reddy, Associate Vice-President of Signpost India Private Ltd, the company that constructed the stainless-steel bus shelter costing Rs 10 lakh on August 21 this year, had filed a complaint with the High Grounds police. He claimed the shelter was found stolen when he visited the site on August 28.
Reddy's complaint, filed more than a month after the incident, led to an FIR registered under IPC 379 (punishment for theft). However, Dayananda clarified that complaints had been received about the shelter's substandard quality. BBMP officials, dissatisfied with Signpost's response to their notices, conducted a spot inspection and removed the shelter on August 25.
Assistant Executive Engineer from BBMP (Ward 93, Vasanth Nagar) E Krishnappa revealed that multiple phone complaints from the public prompted their action. BBMP officials visited the site on August 23, issued a notice to Signpost seeking an explanation for the substandard work. As they received no proper response, the shelter was dismantled and placed in the BBMP warehouse at Tasker Town, Shivajinagar.
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11 more bodies retrieved from Arunachal accident site
Itanagar (PTI): Eleven more bodies were retrieved on Saturday from the deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where a mini-truck on which 22 labourers from Assam were travelling fell, an official said.
With this, 17 bodies have been recovered from the accident site, Anjaw's deputy commissioner Milo Kojin said.
He said three more bodies will be brought out on Sunday.
The operation, being conducted by a joint team of the NDRF and Army, resumed at 6 am.
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"The retrieval process was extremely difficult because of the treacherous terrain, and the gorge is very deep," Kojin said.
The operation was suspended around 4 pm due to low visibility and will be resumed on Sunday morning, he said.
"One person is still missing, and a search operation will be carried out tomorrow," he added.
The accident happened on the evening of December 8, around 40 km from Hayuliang towards Chaglagam in the district. On the evening of December 10, one survivor managed to climb out of the gorge and reach a nearby Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) labour camp, following which the authorities were alerted.
Six bodies were recovered from the gorge on Friday and handed over to their families on Saturday.
