Contractor arrested day after Mohali showroom collapse
A day after the showroom collapse in TDI City Sector 118, the police have arrested contractor Jasvir Singh.
As many as three buildings have collapsed in the Tricity in the past one month, with experts identifying unscientific digging, weakening of base near structures, unskilled labour, substandard construction quality, and lax implementation of building bylaws as probable causes behind such incidents.
Sources said the building owner stays in New Delhi and construction was being carried out under the supervision of the contractor and an acquaintance of the owner.
The contractor has been booked under Section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at the Balongi police station.
Sharing further details about the progress, Kharar deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Karan Sandhu said, “The contractor was arrested today and will be produced in the court tomorrow.”
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Viraj S Tidke, meanwhile, informed that the administration has initiated the process to provide for compensation to the kin of the deceased.
Jaswinder Singh (41), a resident of Chuhar Majra near Landran, died and three others were injured when the lintel of an under-construction two-storey showroom came crashing down on them in TDI City, Sector 118, on Monday afternoon.
According to the eyewitnesses, the lintel of the second floor of the showroom was being laid when the first floor collapsed and six construction workers were trapped in the rubble.
A few workers jumped off the building and escaped with minor injuries.
