Shaikh slipped and fell into the pit while playing near it. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC’s) negligence has once again come to the fore with an incident in Nehru Nagar, which claimed the life of a six-year-old boy. The child died after falling into a pit that was dug up by the civic body for constructing a public toilet. Locals allege that the pit has been left open for the past two months and BMC never bothered about it after giving the contract to a local contractor.