Morbi (Gujarat): Jaysukh Patel, the managing director of Oreva Group and the main suspect in the Morbi bridge collapse that claimed at least 132 lives in October of last year, turned himself in to the local judicial magistrate's court on Tuesday.
Patel turned himself in the day before the hearing scheduled for Wednesday on his anticipatory bail plea.
According to court sources, on Tuesday afternoon, Patel walked into the courtroom and surrendered before the judicial magistrate.
On January 27, the investigating officer and Deputy Superintendent of Police, P.A. Zala, had filed a charge sheet in the suspension bridge collapse case of October 30, 2022, in which 132 persons were killed, IANS reported.
In the charge sheet, Jaysukh Patel was named as the prime accused who was absconding. The main allegation against Patel is that though he had to repair and re-open the bridge for the public after one year, to make quick money, he opened the bridge without a fitness certificate within six months.
Though corrosion was found on one of the main cables of the suspension bridge, he did not replace it. This bridge required expert engineers, but he simply got it repaired with ordinary fabricators, putting the lives of visitors at risk.