The contractors who performed maintenance of the ill-fated suspension bridge at Morbi in Gujarat weren’t certified to hold out such jobs, the prosecution advised a courtroom right here on Tuesday.

The cave in of the bridge on Sunday night time claimed 135 lives.

Whilst the floor of the bridge was once changed, its cable was once no longer changed and it will no longer take the load of the modified floor, mentioned the prosecution, mentioning a forensic document.

The Justice of the Peace’s courtroom remanded 4 of the arrested accused — two managers of OREVA Staff and two sub-contractors who had repaired the bridge — in police custody until Saturday.

Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace M J Khan remanded 5 different arrested males, together with safety guards and price ticket reserving clerks, in judicial custody as police didn’t search their custody, mentioned prosecutor H S Panchal.

Police had on Monday booked 9 individuals below Indian Penal Code segment 304 (culpable murder no longer amounting to homicide).

The 4 who had been remanded in police custody had been OREVA managers Dipak Parekh and Dinesh Dave, and repairing contractors Prakash Parmar and Devang Parmar, employed by way of the OREVA Staff.

Bringing up Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) document, Panchal advised the courtroom that forensic professionals believed that the principle cable of the bridge snapped as a result of the load of the brand new floor.

“Even though the FSL document was once offered in a sealed duvet, it was once discussed all over the remand plea that cables of the bridge weren’t changed all over the renovation and best floor was once modified….. weight of the bridge higher because of the four-layered aluminium sheets for the floor and the cable snapped because of that weight,” Panchal advised journalists.

The courtroom was once additionally knowledgeable that each the repairing contractors had been “no longer certified” to hold out this kind of paintings.

“Regardless of that, those contractors got restore paintings of the bridge in 2007 after which in 2022. So the accused’s custody was once had to to find out what was causing opting for them and at whose example they had been selected,” the prosecutor mentioned.

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