It seems the BMC did not learn anything from the death of Dr Deepak Amrapurkar, who fell into an open manhole and was fished out of a drain two days later. Yesterday, the BMC proudly announced to the Bombay High Court that it has taken all precautions for the monsoon. And yet, several readers have sent mid-day pictures of damaged or open drains in their locality to call the civic body's bluff.

mid-day has already punctured the civic authorities' claims of being rain ready two weeks ago when this paper highlighted how just an hour of rain had left parts of the city waterlogged. A few days ago, this paper also highlighted how as many as eight citizens had died in rain-related incidents such as tree falls, electrocution and drowning in open drains.