Overview
- The municipal corporation, which reinstalled the statues Thursday, said finishing touches like sheds and beautification will be done within a week.
- Police filed an FIR Tuesday evening against Lucknow-based Fly Infratech under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 196(2) and 352 after the municipal chief engineer’s complaint.
- The Uttar Pradesh government blacklisted the firm, revoked its contract, and suspended two municipal engineers on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s orders.
- Protests on Wednesday by civic groups, relatives and opposition parties demanded a high-level, transparent probe and dignified treatment of the broken remains.
- Officials say the contractor removed the statues late Sunday without notifying supervisors and dumped the rubble at a waste site, inflaming a city that reveres these Kakori-era freedom fighters.