The police have registered a case against three persons in connection with the wall collapse on the premises of a private college in Coimbatore that claimed the lives of five migrant workers on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.
G. Srinivasan, owner of Srinivasan Associates, the firm that undertook the wall construction on the premises of Sri Krishna Institutions in Sugunapuram, Coimbatore; Sadiq Ul Ameer, project manager and K. Arunachalam, site engineer, were booked by the Kuniyamuthur police.
The police said a total of 14 workers of the company were engaged in the construction of a compound wall on the premises of the college, located on the Coimbatore – Palakkad Road, on Tuesday. An old wall collapsed on top of five workers when they were working on erecting a new wall beside it, around 5.30 p.m.
