The BMC corporators have alleged that the BMC held back documents, allowing a blacklisted contractor to build the boundary wall that collapsed at Kurar village in Malad on July 2, killing 27 people so far.

In the meeting of the standing committee on Friday, leader of Opposition in the BMC Ravi Raja said the BMC awarded the contract to the company in December 2015 even as it was involved in a desilting scam. The contractor went ahead and built the wall in 2017, even though he was blacklisted in February 2016. He alleged that certain BMC officials withheld the blacklist order until the contractor began construction of the wall. The BMC had spent R21 crore on the construction of the 2-km wall.