Incriminating documentation destroyed

The authorities who had been conducting investigations on unsafe constructions following the collapse of the five-storey building killing a young couple and their child, have found that the vital documentation relating to seven other unsafe buildings had gone missing.

Some high-ups of the local body responsible for looking after the affairs of the city are said to be bent on self-serving, following a policy of ‘you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours’ and they had been throwing the rules and regulations to the four winds where their personal gains mattered, they say.

It has now been established that several other buildings too had been constructed like the collapsed five-storey building without the approval from the relevant authorities and the investigators have run into a snag as the documentation relating to these constructions had gone missing.