Rescuers retrieved the body of a woman from under the debris of a residential high-rise in Gurgaon’s Sector 109 yesterday night, over over 54 hours after the incident.
The body of Sunita Shrivastava, which was spotted under the debris Friday, was pulled out at 11:30 pm Saturday by the rescue team, a senior police officer told PTI, adding that it has been sent for postmortem.
The woman’s husband, identified as Indian Railways officer Arun Srivastava was rescued from the rubble and shifted to hospital on Saturday. Following the crash, Mr Srivastava’s leg was stuck under the rubble and was rescued 16 hours after the incident.
The dining room floor of a sixth-floor apartment of Chintels Paradiso in Gurugram’s Sector 109 collapsed Thursday evening, killing two women— Ekta Bhardwaj and Sunita Shrivastava.
The police have lodged an FIR at Bajghera police station against the managing director of realty firm Chintels India on charges of causing death due to negligence, Gurugram Deputy Commissioner of Police Deepak Saharan said.
The Gurugram district administration also instituted a probe into the collapse. —
Meanwhile, the family members of Ekta Bhardwaj (35), hope that they would get justice. They had shifted to Gurugram almost six months ago with dreams of progress, but the victim’s husband now says that he has lost everything here. “We are from Delhi. We came here for a better life, but now, everything is shattered. We shifted to the society as tenants in September last year when I started my business in Bahadurgarh. It was negligence that destroyed our family. I don’t know what to say to my son and daughter,” says Rajesh Bhardwaj. —with PTI