Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday July 06,2014 announced the formation
of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to go into the collapse of an
eleven-storeyed private building in Moulivakkam near Porur, on the
outskirts of Chennai.
Headed by a joint commissioner of police, the team will have experts
from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras, Anna University
and other universities, besides those in the State Public Works
Department (PWD), the Chief Minister said.
The experts would render technical advice to the police officials and
guide them. The team would function within the overall supervision of
Chennai Police Commissioner.
Twenty seven persons were rescued and admitted to hospitals. The six-day-long rescue operations ended on Friday July 4,2014
A case had been booked under several provisions of the Indian Penal Code at the Mangadu police station and senior executives of the firm that had taken up the construction of the building were among those arrested
A few days ago, the TN government also announced the constitution of a one-man commission of inquiry to probe the building collapse with former High Court Judge Justice R. Reghupathy as the head.
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