Home / News / India News / Article / Mahim building collapse: BMC suspends 3 engineers for negligence

Mahim building collapse: BMC suspends 3 engineers for negligence

Mumbai's civic body suspends three engineers for not responding to lawyer Rizwan Merchant's complaints regarding alterations done to the structure of Altaf Mansion.

  • WhatsAppBookmarkBookmark
Listen to this article :

A fortnight after Altaf Mansion, a building in Mumbai’s Mahim suburb, caved in killing 10 people, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has suspended 3 engineers of the building and factory department of G-north ward.

The engineers had allegedly not responded to a complaint registered by lawyer Rizwan Merchant, one of the residents of Altaf mansion, in 2008 about the alterations that had been made in the building.

Assistant engineer Chandrakant Shende, Sub engineer Digambar M Satam and Junior engineer Pravin Rane all are from building and factory department has been suspended for negligence and not timely acted upon the complaint.

Read Next Story
BMC blames IMD's inaccurate forecasts for city's water-logging woes›

Trending Stories

Latest Photoscta-pos

Latest VideosView All

Latest Web StoriesView All