MORBI COLLAPSE AN ‘ENORMOUS TRAGEDY’: SC

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said that the Morbi bridge collapse which claimed over 140 lives was an “enormous tragedy” and asked the Gujarat high court, which is already hearing a suo motu case on the same issue, to hold periodical hearings.

“It is an enormous tragedy and will require weekly monitoring to see the award of contract, credential of the party awarded the contract, attribution of responsibility for those guilty,” observed a bench of Chief Justice of India Dhananjay Y Chandrachud and justice Hima Kohli.

The apex court noted that a division bench headed by the Gujarat high court chief justice has already taken a suo motu note of the incident and passed three orders, it will not hear the petitions as of now.