Saravana Stores fire incident: two seek anticipatory bail

Saravana Stores fire incident: two seek anticipatory bail



Special Correspondent







CHENNAI: Two persons of Saravana Stores on Ranganathan Street, T.Nagar, where a fire broke out on Monday, have moved the Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail.

The petition has been filed by Yogarathinam and Rajarathinam.

A public interest litigation has been filed seeking a direction to the Municipal Administration and Local Administration department and the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority to conduct an enquiry into the cause of the fire and punish the delinquents.

In his petition, K.R. Ramaswamy alias Traffic Ramaswamy said that if only an earlier order of the High Court had been acted upon sincerely, encroachments on Ranganathan Street would have been removed and the accident could have been averted. Even though the court order was passed in August 2006, no progress had been shown by official authorities.

The Chennai Corporation and other authorities were inactive and the order passed by the High Court had not been enforced till date.

Mr. Ramaswamy said that in the earlier writ petition, he sought a direction to the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, the Chennai Corporation and the Chennai Police Commissioner to enforce the provision of the Tamil Nadu Multi-Storeyed Building Act and Rules and the Corporation law in respect of buildings in the city and to ensure public safety and free flow of traffic.