The Madras High Court has quashed criminal prosecution initiated against the Managing Director of a private company for the death of a five-year-old girl when a compound wall collapsed on her because of the operation of an earthmover to lay undergone pipelines during heavy rain in Chennai on August 18, 2019.
Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan quashed the prosecution, intiated under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act of 1996, on the ground that the complaint must have been filed on or before November 18, 2019 and not on November 19, 2019.
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