IN A horrifying tragedy caused allegedly by road contractors working on a drainage line to be laid perpendicular to a road in rural Kutch in Gujarat, three persons lost their lives after two vehicles, a car and two bikes, fell into the approximately 15-feet-long gap in the road on the night of May 9. Among those who lost their lives were a woman who had just given birth to her child at G K General Hospital in Bhuj. The child survived but lost its mother within hours of being born. Public outcry and the lack of any sort of barricades or warning signs at the construction site led to the Kutch (West) Police filing an FIR on May 12, naming anonymous contractors as accused persons. The police have since written to the Roads and Buildings (R&B) department to identify the individuals responsible for this particular work.…