HYDERABAD: A four-member police team from West Bengal on Friday arrived in the city as part of its probe to question officials of
Hyderabad-based IVRCL
after the flyover it was constructing collapsed in Kolkata.
"They have come and are doing investigation," a top police official of Hyderabad Police said.
About 60-metre-long portion of the under-construction
Vivekananda flyover in Kolkata had collapsed on Thursday.
The Kolkata Police on Thursday registered a case against the Hyderabad-based construction firm
IVRCL
under sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) and 407 of the IPC and sealed the local office of the company engaged in flyover's construction.
The toll in the flyover collapse rose to 24 on Friday. Police there estimated that the number of people injured in the mishap was close to 90.
Reacting to the flyover collapse, an IVRCL official had on Thursday said, "It is nothing but God's act," even as another official denied any quality or technical issue as the cause behind the incident "as of now".
"
It's nothing but a God's act. So far in 27 years we have constructed several number of bridges...it (today's collapse) never happened," K Panduranga Rao, group head (hr & admin) of the Hyderabad-based company told reporters on Thursday.