Case against Himachal Pradesh project authorities, search operation underway

Mandi (HP): A case of negligence has been registered against the authorities of the Larji Hydropower Project here as rescuers negotiated huge boulders and silt to trace the bodies of the engineering students and a tour guide who were washed away in the turbulent waters of the Beas River.

Mandi SP Negi on Wednesday said that a case under Sections 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) and 304-A (causing death by negligence) has been registered against the authorities of the Larji project.

The FIR against the project authorities was registered by A. Aditya, a teacher accompanying the students. The hunt for the missing students of the Hyderabad-based college, meanwhile, made little headway.

During two days of intensive search the bodies of only three girls and two boys have been recovered.