Railway engineer behind the bars in Hoarding collapse case

Under the surveillance of railway engineer the job of removing the huge hoarding at Shahir Amar Shaikh Chowk was going on, which collapsed on Friday afternoon killing 4 and injuring more than half a dozen. In this case the railway engineer Sanjay Singh has been arrested by police for negligence.

Shahir Amar Shaikh Chowk is one of the most crowed places in Pune as it a square which connects the RTO, Pune Station, and Sassoon Hospital. And this chowk is an attraction to many for advertisements which led to the construction of illegal hoardings in the area.

The hoarding which collapsed on Friday was supposed to be removed safely under the surveillance of railway engineer Sanjay Singh. He was supposed to take down the hoarding safely but during which, due to his negligence, the hoarding collapsed down and killed 4 and seriously injured 7.

[amazon_link asins=’B078124279′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’policenama100-21′ marketplace=’IN’ link_id=’74bb7fa6-c933-11e8-8457-5b4a7f18277e’]

Surprisingly, the huge hoarding which was supposed to be cut down from above in a way that no one will be harmed, the hoarding was cut from the base and it collapsed on the road side which crushed more than 4 to 5 auto rikshaws under it.

When contacted the hoarding Captions Outdoor Advertising via his partner Abdul Razzak Faquih issued a released  mentioning, “It is submitted that, Captions Outdoor Advertising had been allotted a tender of commercial publicity for Sole Advertisement Rights for Zone – C, Juna Bazaar Chowk, by the Railways for a period of 7 years on 16/12/2015. The Railway Department, on 16/06/2017 directed the firm to conduct Structural Audit of the hoardings from the government authority. On 21/07/2017, the firm approached the College of Engineering for the Structural Audit Report and have paid all the fees for the same. In the meantime, on 16/11/2017, the Railway Department directed to remove all the display plywood vinyl sheets from the site.”

[amazon_link asins=’B071HWTHPH’ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’policenama100-21′ marketplace=’IN’ link_id=’83bf570e-c933-11e8-ad50-6b2b1650a169′]

According to police, “In the railway premises such hoarding was placed and process of removing such hoarding was going on. Under the cutting process it seems such hoarding was cut from base inside from upside due to which the entire hoarding fell down on the road and apparently the signal was left on such busy road and it fall on the people. Immediately the rescue operation had begun and some ten people were rescued while three died, seven are injured.”