Reported by, Sept. 4 -- Mrinal Banik

Agartala: The Tripura High Court has expressed displeasure over the Civil Engineering Department of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, declining to examine the structural condition of a building that is at the centre of a pending dispute.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice M S Ramachandra Rao and Justice Biswajit Palit was hearing a writ appeal when the issue came up for consideration.

The Bench examined a communication dated August 27 from the Professor and Head of NIT Agartala's Civil Engineering Department to the Chief Engineer of the PWD (R&B).

The department had informed the authorities that it could not take up the proposed structural assessment because of existing academic,...