Overview
- A retaining wall at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital collapsed on April 29, killing seven people and prompting a state-ordered technical probe.
- A Lokayukta-led report found the Bowring wall was 2.8 metres high, lacked an earth-retaining structure and had no weep holes to drain rainwater, and concluded the collapse was preventable.
- The Commercial Street police have registered an FIR naming Chennai-based ASR Traders after a government engineer alleged the contractor left demolished debris at the Bowring site and failed to follow safe demolition practices.
- A separate collapse at the under-construction Prudent Homes site in Chikkabanasawadi buried six workers, killed a 17-year-old migrant labourer and injured another, and Banaswadi police have filed a negligence case against the building owner.
- Multiple city agencies are now involved in criminal and technical investigations, raising the prospect of prosecutions and tighter enforcement as heavy rains, visible cracks and alleged encroachment expose risks to workers and nearby residents.