Top official of flyover contract firm arrested

With this, the number of arrests in this connection have risen to nine. IVRCL assistant vice-president of Project Monitoring Cell (PMC) and administration of the Eastern Region, Ranajit Bhattacharjee was arrested late last night after questioning at Lalbazar, the headquarters of Kolkata Police, a senior officer confirmed on Wednesday.

Bhattacharjee, who had fallen sick and was hospitalised after the March 31 collapse, was discharged from the hospital last evening following which he was taken to Lalbazar immediately. With Bhattarcharjee’s arrest, nine officials of IVRCL have been arrested. 

So far, IVRCL Director Operations Gopal Krishnamurthy, Deputy General Manager of Project Monitoring Cell (PMC) SK Ratnam, Assistant General Manager Mallikaarjun Rao, Assistant Manager Debjyoti Manjumdar, Structure Manager Pradip Kumar Saha, Project Manager Tanmoy Sil and senior engineers Shyamal Manna and Bidyut Manna have been arrested.