13 June,2026 12:24 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The Mumbai Police on Saturday registered a second FIR in a week against the employees of a construction company for allegedly blocking the new Kalina-BKC Link Road by installing cranes, parking vehicles and placing other materials on the carriageway, a police official said.
According to PTI, BKC Police have named the project manager and the administrative head of the firm in the fresh FIR registered under section 285 (danger or obstruction in a public way or line of navigation) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS). However, none of those who had been accused has been arrested so far, the official said on Friday.
The fresh case was registered after multiple videos showing the road being blocked went viral. Last week, MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) had also imposed a penalty of Rs 2 lakh on the construction company for damaging and blocking the road.
According to police, the company failed to act even after the MMRDA raised the issue and directed it to remove road obstructions.
While this is the second time an FIR has been launched against the same construction company, the first FIR had only named the crane operator.
The officials from the Mumbai Police said that nobody has been arrested, but the investigation is still underway.
In a separate incident, earlier in April, tension prevailed at Sion Hospital after relatives of a 55-year-old labourer, Khalin Shaikh, refused to accept his body following his death during treatment. The deceased, identified as Kalim Shaikh, was working at a construction project in CGS Colony, GTB Nagar, when the incident occurred.
Shaikh's distant relatives, who live in the city, refused to accept the body, demanding a proper inquiry into the matter on Friday. His son arrived here from Delhi on Saturday afternoon and consented to an autopsy after an FIR was registered against the project site supervisors.
"The builder's employees had first called us after the incident happened instead of calling an ambulance or the police for help. He may have survived if care had been provided to him rather than trying to manipulate and settle things by calling us first," said Shaikh's nephew.
