Officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi didn’t monitor or crack down on illegal construction, sat on multiple complaints, failed to enforce norms and later fabricated retrospective inspection records to mislead investigators, a magisterial inquiry into the collapse of an unauthorised building in south Delhi’s Saidulajab in May has found. The Saidulajab site where a building collapsed in May this year that killed 6. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo) The 80-page inquiry report into the accident — where a four-storey building collapsed on May 30 when two additional floors were under construction, burying a canteen, damaging a neighbouring coaching institute, and killing six people — concluded that the disaster was preventable. It cleared the Delhi Police, Delhi Jal Board and power discom BSES of any wrongdoing, but flagged that one person was shuttled between multiple hospitals in the critical hours before his death. “The collapse primarily resulted from unauthorised structural additions and inadequate regulatory enforcement…most significant deficiencies were found in the monitoring and enforcement mechanism of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi,” said the report, submitted by the …