A group of junior engineers of the Ghaziabad Development Authority staged a protest against the GDA vice chairperson over suspension of their colleagues in connection with the collapse of a five-storey building here recently.

The engineers affiliated to the Uttar Pradesh Diploma Engineers Maha Sangh contend that only junior engineers (JEs) are not responsible for illegal construction and action should be taken against higher authorities as well. The president of the city unit of the junior engineers' body, Gyan Praksh Diwedi, said junior engineers are supposed to inform higher authorities and they have certain role in checking illegal construction.