Inaction by housing society officials even after an internal structural audit termed the building as dilapidated and dangerous, led to the death of a security guard on Monday as part of a balcony collapsed on him. Meanwhile, family members of the deceased have refused to take the body till compensation is given to them.  The incident took place at Maheshwar Darshan CHS, a 55-year-old building, which houses 45 flats, shops along with a nursing home. 

Pramod Yadav, 40, was sitting near gate no. 2 of the society as part of his duty when the balcony wall of Smriti Nursing Home collapsed and fell on his head. Yadav was rushed to Ramkrishna Mission Hospital in Khar where he was declared dead on arrival. His body was thereafter sent to Cooper Hospital for a post-mortem.