The Noida administration on Wednesday invoked the National Security Act (NSA) against a builder who had illegally constructed a multistorey building which collapsed last year, leaving nine people dead.
This is the first case in Uttar Pradesh in which a builder has been detained under the stringent NSA, which prohibits bail to an accused for 12 months, subject to judicial review, the administration said.
On July 17, 2018, two adjoining buildings had collapsed in Greater Noida’s Shahberi village, leaving nine people, including a child and two women, dead.
“Builder Shahbuddin, from Meerut, has already been arrested. He has been booked under the Gangsters Act,” Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate B.N. Singh told reporters in a joint press conference with SSP Vaibhav Krishna.
