Lorry driver held for wall collapse near Erode RUB

In a large breakthrough successful the lawsuit involving the illness of a partition connected the roadworthy underbridge (RUB) betwixt Erode and Chavadipalayam railway stations adjacent Gatepudhur connected October 24, the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Salem Division, connected Saturday arrested a lorry operator from Namakkal for causing the accident.

A information of the retaining partition of the span had collapsed, disrupting some bid operations and roadworthy postulation successful the country for the past 1 week. Initially, it was believed that continuous rainfall had led to the collapse. However, nether the absorption of Divisional Security Commissioner Saurav Kumar, a peculiar RPF squad led by Inspector Sakthivel of Erode, with the enactment of Nakka Ganapathy, Sub-Inspector, Tiruppur, S. Gopalakrishnan, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Salem, A. Prakash, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Erode, and Sri Krishnan, Head Constable, Erode, was formed to find the nonstop origin of the incident.

The squad analysed CCTV footage from the past week and traced the conveyance responsible. Investigation revealed that a lorry carrying dense goods had deed the operation and fled the spot.

The driver, identified arsenic Nagarajan, 44, of Namakkal district, was arrested, and the lorry progressive was seized. The accused was produced earlier Judicial Magistrate-II, Erode, and remanded to judicial custody.

In a release, the RPF warned each conveyance drivers to strictly adhere to roadworthy information regulations adjacent railway premises and warned that ineligible enactment would beryllium taken against those who damaged railway spot oregon endangered rider safety.