Rajkot Game Zone FIre

The Rajkot City Crime Branch, Special Investigation Team (SIT), and now a fact-finding committee will intensify the investigation into the Rajkot fire tragedy, which claimed 28 lives on May 25.

A senior official stated that the high-level fact-finding committee will investigate junior and senior officials, along with recommending departmental inquiries and action against those responsible.

However, despite the formation of this committee, the investigation of the five-member SIT headed by senior IPS officer Subhash Trivedi will continue. This team will submit its full report to the government on June 20.

Internal sources at the State Secretariat said that the issues covered in the SIT investigation will also be brought before this new inquiry committee. In addition, the involvement of officials from various departments of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) shall be probed by this team.

The Urban Development Department’s principal secretary is slated to announce the new high-powered committee in a few days, which is likely to house five to seven members and report within 15 days.

SIT probe ongoing

Summons were also issued to the officers to appear before the SIT.

Secretariat sources said that the file for granting a licence to Rajkot’s TRP Game Zone has gone missing from the police commissioner’s office. SIT officials have not been able to find the missing file yet, prompting strict action against the responsible officers by the home department.