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Jaya sets up SIT to probe Chennai building collapse

| | Jul 06, 2014, at 06:39 pm
Chennai, July 6 (IBNS): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday announced the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the collapse of the 11-storey building near Chennai that claimed 61 lives.
The SIT will be headed by a joint commissioner of police.
 
The team will also have experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras, Anna University and other universities, besides those in the State Public Works Department (PWD), reports said.
 
Earlier, the state CM had set up a probe panel under a judge and said action will be taken after its report and fixing of responsibility. 
 
The building collapse, which took place on June 28, claimed lives of 61 persons.  The 11-storey building collapsed at Moulivakkam near Chennai..
 
 The six-day-long rescue operations ended on Friday and twenty seven persons were rescued and admitted to hospitals.
 
A case had been booked under several provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Mangadu police station and senior executives of the firm that had taken up the construction of the building were among those arrested, The Hindu reported.
 

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