Police yet to register FIR against ASI

  • | Wednesday | 12th December, 2018

ASI Gujarat chief Anil Tiwari has submitted his report to the director general and now a team of senior conservationists from Delhi is expected to assess the damage caused to the heritage building any time this week. VADODARA: The Sayajigunj police are yet to lodge a formal complaint against the Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI ) even four days after the M S University submitted an application alleging criminal negligence on part of the agency in conserving the iconic dome of the arts facultyIt was on Saturday that MSU’s in-charge registrar N K Ojha had submitted the application to the police stating that the ASI, which was entrusted the job of restoring the heritage structure, had left the building damaged. In the application, the university officials had said that the university had paid Rs 2.31 crore to ASI in July 2016 as deposit for carrying out the restoration, preservation, conservation and retrofitting of the arts faculty dome.But ASI, Vadodara had caused an irreparable damage by drilling and making holes into the walls of the main dome and the subsidiary dome while erecting external shuttering and scaffolding at the site, the application read.Requesting that the cops should register the complaint against ASI, Vadodara circle’s superintending archaeologist, the university had said that his team had caused damage to the 136-year-old double dome heritage structure of the university which reflects “highly irresponsible, unprofessional, carelessness and criminal negligence”.Sayajigunj police inspector Haresh Vora, however, said that police received several documents from university on Tuesday evening. “We will have to study the documents first and then ASI officials will be called in a couple of days to give their statements,” he said.On Tuesday, Ojha told TOI that they have submitted all the documents sought by the police including the correspondence that the university had with the ASI in 2016 related to the estimate of carrying out the restoration work.“We have submitted the estimate that we had received from ASI, the order that was issued assigning the restoration work to the central agency, the syndicate resolution that was passed to assign the work to ASI apart from other supporting documents,” said Ojha.Meanwhile, there is status quo at the arts faculty where Asia’s second largest masonry dome – the central dome and the two other subsidiary domes adjacent to it has been punctured at 110 spots.

VADODARA: The Sayajigunj police are yet to lodge a formal complaint against the Archaeological Survey of India ( ASI ) even four days after the M S University submitted an application alleging criminal negligence on part of the agency in conserving the iconic dome of the arts facultyIt was on Saturday that MSU’s in-charge registrar N K Ojha had submitted the application to the police stating that the ASI, which was entrusted the job of restoring the heritage structure, had left the building damaged. In the application, the university officials had said that the university had paid Rs 2.31 crore to ASI in July 2016 as deposit for carrying out the restoration, preservation, conservation and retrofitting of the arts faculty dome.But ASI, Vadodara had caused an irreparable damage by drilling and making holes into the walls of the main dome and the subsidiary dome while erecting external shuttering and scaffolding at the site, the application read.Requesting that the cops should register the complaint against ASI, Vadodara circle’s superintending archaeologist, the university had said that his team had caused damage to the 136-year-old double dome heritage structure of the university which reflects “highly irresponsible, unprofessional, carelessness and criminal negligence”.Sayajigunj police inspector Haresh Vora, however, said that police received several documents from university on Tuesday evening. “We will have to study the documents first and then ASI officials will be called in a couple of days to give their statements,” he said.On Tuesday, Ojha told TOI that they have submitted all the documents sought by the police including the correspondence that the university had with the ASI in 2016 related to the estimate of carrying out the restoration work.“We have submitted the estimate that we had received from ASI, the order that was issued assigning the restoration work to the central agency, the syndicate resolution that was passed to assign the work to ASI apart from other supporting documents,” said Ojha.Meanwhile, there is status quo at the arts faculty where Asia’s second largest masonry dome – the central dome and the two other subsidiary domes adjacent to it has been punctured at 110 spots. ASI Gujarat chief Anil Tiwari has submitted his report to the director general and now a team of senior conservationists from Delhi is expected to assess the damage caused to the heritage building any time this week.

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