Rajkot TRP Gamezone fire: HC orders probe into working of all civic bodies in Guj

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government on Monday set up a three-member inquiry panel into Rajkot’s TRP Gaming Zone on orders of the high court that wanted the state to “find out the fault of erring officers of the Rajkot municipal corporation including municipal commissioners” who allowed the gaming zone to come up. Rajkot: Congress workers hold a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to those killed in a fire at TRP Gaming Zone, in Rajkot In a sharply-worded 22-page order, the high court rejected the corporation’s defence of the municipal commissioners for the illegal construction at the TRP Gaming Zone where a fire killed 27 people on May 25. The structure comprised of the fabricated steel frame with boundaries of steel patras having G+1 floor, cannot be considered to be an invisible structure, which was thriving in the city within the territorial jurisdiction of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation,” the bench of chief justice Sunita Agarwal and justice Pranav Trivedi said in its order dated June 13. The court felt the need for an inquiry into the workings of the municipal corporations because recent accidents reflect dereliction of duty on the part of the municipal commissioners and cited the Morbi bridge collapse, Harni boat tragedy and Rajkot TRP Game Zone fire in this context.