On May 25, 2024, a fire at a game zone in Rajkot, Gujarat, killed 32 people, according to Wikipedia. In the Gujarat High Court, a lawyer for the municipal corporation said that the municipal commissioner had not known, because fire officers “never sent him any communication.”
The court asked: “For 18 months, what did the corporation do? Sat over it?” Justice Biren Vaishnav said: “The responsibility lies at the top.” Officials, the court said, cannot “pass on the buck.”