You would think a death due to potholes right at the start of the monsoon would shame the civic authorities into taking action. It didn't; instead, they just sat on it. Then, last Saturday, the same potholes claimed another one; so, yesterday, KDMC started filling all the pits at Shivaji Chowk in Kalyan. Mother of four Manisha Bhoir, 40, was the latest victim. Last month, five-year-old Aarav Atharale had died at the same spot.

A shopkeeper from the area shows the spot where Manisha Bhoir (inset) died