Overview

• The Yelahanka police registered a case under Bharatiya Nyaya/Sura ksha Sanhita provisions for causing death by negligence after the Venkatala collapse.
• More than a dozen people were booked, including Embassy Group leadership, site managers and supervisors, along with partner firms named in the FIR.
• The victims were identified as J. Shiva, 32, who died at the site, and Madhusudhan Reddy, 58, who later died in hospital.
• A complaint by a victim’s spouse alleges inadequate safety measures at the under-construction project.
• Co-workers used an earth mover to pull the men from the caved-in mud and transported them to a hospital.