HC stays probe into Narmada Canal breach in 2005

The Gujarat High Court has stayed the police investigation in a criminal case,which was registered against an engineering company in the wake of a breach in the Narmanda Canal near Kadi in Mehsana district in 2005.

The Gujarat High Court has stayed the police investigation in a criminal case,which was registered against an engineering company in the wake of a breach in the Narmanda Canal near Kadi in Mehsana district in 2005.

In 2005,the Narmada Canal passing near Kadi had developed a breach,which had resulted in farmers of the surrounding villages sustaining losses to the tune of Rs 70 lakh.

Four years later,in 2009,an official of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) filed a criminal complaint of breach of trust and other charges with the Kadi police against the managing director and project manager of the Bangalore-based engineering company,Satyam Shivnarayan Joint Venture Private Limited,which had got the contract for constructing the relative part of the canal.

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Following the complaint,the two officers have moved a petition through their lawyer,Dhaval Barot,to get the complaint quashed. Barot said that among others,they argued before the court of Justice H N Devani that the complaint has been lodged to shield some of the government officials in connection with the mishap.

Justice Devani has issued notices to the respondents to be returned on October 28. And till then,a stay on the investigation has been ordered.

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