Manhole tragedy: Sewerage board to be probed
The inquiry will look into the causes of the mishap, and identification of those responsible.
Hyderabad: A magisterial inquiry will be held into the death Saturday of four people in the ill-fated manhole at Madhapur in Hitec City, in addition to the ongoing departmental inquiry by officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board.
The deaths have baffled the city as the couldn’t-care-less attitude displayed by the water board mandarins keeps taking one too many innocent lives.
Ranga Reddy district collector M. Raghunandan Rao has agreed to a request from HMWS&SB managing director Dana Kishore for a magisterial inquiry.
Loka was not Class-1 contractor
The inquiry will look into the causes of the mishap, and identification of those responsible. He would also check whether sub-leasing was done legally.
Dana Kishore, who shares the blame for the mishap, told DC that a magisterial inquiry will be conducted as he “wanted a third party to find out the reasons for the mishap”. Inquiries by DC revealed that Loka Reddy was not a class-I contractor. He did not have the experience of executing the Rs 1.5 crore work which was “sub-leased” to him by G. Santosh Kumar of GSK infrastructure. Kumar is a class-I contractor.