Engr, site manager held in fatal construction accident

Our lives matter: Justice campaign after death from falling concrete

- Megha Kuchik

After outrage from residents, the Meghwadi police on Saturday arrested an engineer and a site manager for alleged culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The arrests were made in connection with the death of Sanskruti Amin, 22, who died after a cement block fell on her head from an under-construction building when she stepped out of her house on Thakur Road, Majaswadi, Jogeshwari East, on Wednesday.

The accused have been identified as Shaambhu Kumar Palat Paswan, 29, a site engineer, and Gaurav Dineshbhai Sondagar, 39, a site manager. Meanwhile, residents alleged that the police had arrested “small fish” instead of the developer and his partner. Harish Amin, president of the Bilawar Association, said, “The police have arrested small fish. They have not arrested the developer and his partner.