Trust the BMC to come up with innovative reasons for defending itself when it comes to the city's potholes. The civic body submitted in the Bombay High Court yesterday that media reports on the potholes and the condition of roads in the city are malicious and meant to humiliate its engineers and officers.

The media reports
Ruju Thakker, one of the interveners in the petition on potholes pointed out to a bench of justices Shantanu Kemkar and Justice Makrand Karnik about the September 26 case of 21-year-old Rizwan Khan who died after his bike skid on JJ flyover due to a pothole and another case on October 18 where a police inspector fell because of a pothole in Andheri.