KMC headquarters
Kolkata: Kalicharan Banerjee, former OSD to ex-mayor Firhad Hakim, arrested in connection with the Taratala warehouse collapse that killed 16 people, was granted bail by an Alipore district judge’s court on Tuesday, 105 days after his arrest. Sources said the court granted him bail against a bond of Rs 50,000. He was arrested on June 25, a day after the three-storey structure collapsed.
Three days ago, the same court had granted bail to Aminur Sheikh, the sub-assistant engineer of KMC who was arrested for “negligence”. Banerjee is the second person to get bail in the case. Meanwhile, in a major reshuffle ordered by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, several top-ranking officers holding key portfolios have been transferred. Ujjwal Sarkar, one of the controlling officers who was under the lens after the Taratala warehouse collapse and Free School Street hotel inferno, has been transferred to Uttaran (bustee development) services, DG (roads) Sukanta Das has been replaced by Subhajit Dasgupta who is currently posted as DG (market) While the director-general (DG) of the buildings department.