Indore Stepwell Collapse: Municipality Demolishes Illegal Structure At Temple Where 36 Died — WATCH

Indore municipality deployed bulldozers to demolish the illegal structure built at the Indore temple where 36 people died last week in the stepwell collapse case.

Visuals of the temple being bulldozed

Source : Twitter | @ANI_MP_CG_RJ

In the latest development in the Indore stepwell collapse case, the municipality on Monday deployed bulldozers to demolish the illegal construction at the temple where 36 people died last week.

News agency ANI posted a two-minute-long video that showed the bulldozers demolishing the illegal structure at the temple.

#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh: Indore municipality deploys bulldozer & demolishes illegal structure at Indore temple where 36 people died after the stepwell collapse there last week. pic.twitter.com/gpRJB6zWhN

— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) April 3, 2023

In the video, two bulldozers can be seen demolishing the illegal construction of a rooftop inside the temple premises.

A slab constructed on top of an ancient bawdi or stepwell at the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal temple collapsed on Thursday during a havan programme. Following the incident, the management installed an iron sheet to block access to the stepwell and closed the temple's main gate.

Rescue operations were carried out till Friday. The death toll on Friday stood at 36.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while talking to the reporters on Friday said that he has instructed the administration to find out if there were any more such wells or borewells over which illegal construction has been carried out, covering them in a similarly dangerous way. Chouhan added, “We want to ensure that the tragedy that struck the Indore temple does not occur anywhere else again... If any well, stepwell or borewell is found to be in a dangerous condition on private or government land, then action will be taken against the concerned land owner or officer."

An FIR was filed against Sevaram Galani, head of the Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple Trust, and its secretary Murli Kumar Sabnani under Indian Penal Code Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), according to Neeraj Medha, officer-in-charge of the Juni Indore police station. 

As per Indore Police Commissioner Makrand Deuskar, a magisterial investigation has also been ordered, and further police action would rely on the investigation's results.