Days after the Mumbai Metro Line 4 pillar slab fell down on the road, killing one and injuring several others. Three people on Friday filed anticipatory bail applications in a court in connection with the collapse of a parapet segment after several people were implicated in the FIR registered by the Mumbai Police after the incident.
As reported by news agency PTI, the bail applications will be heard on Saturday. Earlier a man died and three others were injured after a parapet segment of an under-construction bridge of Metro-4 collapsed in Mumbai`s Mulund area on February 14
Anticipatory bail to be heard on February 21
Alpesh Patel and Ganesh Gholap – director and technical director of the contractor firm Milan Road Buildtech and project consultant T Sai Suresh Kumar moved the court with pre-arrest bail pleas.
Notably, of these three, only Kumar is named as an accused in the First Information Report registered by the police against officials of Milan Road Buildtech and DB Hill LBG under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).
Police have until now arrested five employees of the two contractor firms.
Victim`s family receives Rs 39.50 lakh
The family of Ramdhani Yadav, who was killed on Saturday in the Mulund Metro slab collapse incident, said that they have received Rs 39.5 lakh from the authorities, following which they will now take the body for the last rites.
Yadav’s family had earlier said that they would not take the body for the final rites until they received compensation while also seeking compensation and government jobs for his kins.
While the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) disbursed Rs 15 lakh to the victim’s family, Rs 20 lakh was given by the contractor, and an additional Rs 4.50 lakh was given for the air ambulance to lift the body to Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. The chief minister has also announced Rs 5 lakh in compensation.
Ramdhani’s brother Ramsamuj Yadav said, “We have received compensation from MMRDA, and we took the body. We will do the final rites of my brother. Our demands are that my brother’s kin should get government jobs.”
(With inputs from PTI)
