Mumbai / CST foot overbridge collapse: Director of firm that audited bridge arrested

The Indian Express : Mar 19, 2019, 10:24 AM
The police action against Neerajkumar Desai of Prof DD Desai Associated Engineering Consultants comes following an FIR lodged in the case on Friday. Four days after the foot overbridge outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) collapsed in Mumbai killing six and injuring 31. Neeraj Kumar Desai (46), was arrested from Saki Naka on Monday after the Azad Maidan police did not find him at his residence.

Four days after the foot overbridge outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) collapsed in Mumbai killing six and injuring 31, a director of Prof DD Desai’s Associated Engineering Consultant and Analyst Private Limited was arrested on Monday for submitting “faulty” audit reports to the civic body.

The director, Neeraj Kumar Desai (46), was arrested from Saki Naka on Monday after the Azad Maidan police did not find him at his residence in Vile Parle.

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