chennai a day after a lift cable at a marriage hall in gummidipoondi snapped claiming the life of a youth exminister d jayakumars daughter jayapriya who owns the hall and three others have been booked for operating an unauthorised liftthe gummidipoondi sipcot police who found that the lift was erected illegally and was not part of the building plan booked jayapriya manager d thirunavukarasu 32 lift incharge s kakkan 23 and supervisor b venkatesan 40 for culpable homicide not amounting to murder while jayapriya is absconding the others have been nabbedaround 8pm on friday seethan a temporary catering firm employee boarded the lift at jfn marriage hall with two colleagues from the 3rd floor to the ground the cable snapped and the car fell sheetal suffered injuries to the head and was declared dead in hospital two others were injured it lift was not part of the governmentapproved building plan and was functioning illegally since 2015 it didnt have a door and was supported by a mere wooden plank surrounded by plastic sheets said a police officer its capacity was 350kg but nearly 1 tonne of food items in drums were on the lift floor at the time he addedaccording to tn town and country planning act 1971 local bodies are empowered section 56 and 57 to act on deviations from approved housing plans by either demolishing illegal structures or issuing a lock seal notice to the owners in this case the gummidipoondi town panchayat ignored the violations for more than seven yearsdespite attempts r selvaraj commissioner town panchayat department couldnt be reached for comments