A city court on Tuesday remanded eight officials of the Hyderabad based construction company IVRCL to police custody till April 11.
Police arrested four more IVRCL officials late on Monday night taking the total number of arrests in the case to eight.
So far, 27 persons have died in the collapse of the flyover while many are being treated in hospitals.
“Four more officials of the IVRCL — A.K. Gopal Krishna Murti, Director of Operations, Monitoring and review (Kolkata Region), S.K. Ratnam, Deputy General Manager (monitoring cell) along with senior engineers Shyamal Manna and B. Manna — were arrested on Monday,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Debashish Boral.
The flyover, located in the congested marketplace of Burrabazar in North Kolkata, partially collapsed on Friday.
With rising public anger the police slapped murder charges against the arrested IVRCL officials.
Apart from murder they were also charged with attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy.
However, legal experts earlier told The Hindu that the charges of murder and attempt to murder may not stand the court’s scrutiny as the incident was not pre-planned and nobody knew beforehand who would die in the incident.
