One person was killed after a four-storey building collapsed at Malad, as heavy rains lashed city on Wednesday.
According to civic officials, Gopal Bhavan, a building at Mamletdarwadi, collapsed at around 6.55 am due to heavy rainfall. Chandrakant Singhvi (57), a resident of the building was trapped inside. Firefighters pulled Singhvi out of the debris at around 9.15 am and immdiately rushed him to Bhagwati Hospital. However, hospital authorities declared him dead on arrival.
“The BMC had already declared the building as dangerous, and it was evacuated,” said the junior engineer of the P-North ward office.
According to civic officials, Mr Singhvi was the only person living in the building, and had refused to comply with the BMC’s order.
With each passing day, the civic body’s claims of monsoon preparedness are proving to be false, as Mumbaikars continued to face water-logging and traffic jams in several parts of the
city.
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Order likely in ’07 hit-and-run case
ATEEQ SHAIKH
Mumbai, July 4
The Esplanade court on Thursday is likely to pass an order in a 2007 hit-and-run case at Marine Drive, wherein the accused was replaced with a dummy driver by a south Mumbai developer to protect his younger brother — a minor at the time of the accident. The Asian Age on March 25, 2007 had reported about the accident and on January 9, 2012 about the dummy driver filing an affidavit.
“The Marine Drive police had filed a fresh investigation report on June 14 and on Thursday is the next hearing where we anticipate the court to pass an order to book the real accused — Uzair Basar, the teenaged driver and Umer Basar, who orchestrated the story,” said Faraaz Dharamsey, the complainant whose parents had met with the accident.
In November 2011, Farhan Mazoor Ahmed Qureshi had filed an affidavit in the court that his then boss — Umer Basar had asked him to surrender the day after the accident.