"Will Of God": Arrested Manager To Court On Gujarat Bridge Collapse

Wednesday, 2 November 2022newsdesk

One of the accused in the Gujarat bridge collapse tragedy in which 135 people were killed told a court that it was "the will of God" that the incident took place.

New Delhi 02 November 2022

As per news report of NDTV, The comment was by Deepak Parekh, a manager of the Oreva company that was responsible for the maintenance of the 150-year-old bridge. He is one of the nine people arrested after the bridge crashed on Sunday. "It was bhagwan ki ichcha (the will of God) that such an unfortunate event happened," he told Chief Judicial Magistrate MJ Khan. Morbi Deputy Superintendent of Police PA Zala told the court that the cable of the bridge was "rusted" and had not been replaced by the company that renovated it.

Source -NDTV