Overview
- The ceiling plaster fell inside a store-cum-rest room at the Majas BEST depot on Thursday, August 6, injuring three mechanics who were taken to Trauma Care Hospital and later discharged after first aid.
- The room where the collapse occurred is used by Mateshwari Urban Transport, a private operator that runs services from the depot, and the injured were identified as Riyan Shaikh, 19, Salman Khan, 23, and Mujamdin Khan, 20.
- Officials have not yet determined the cause of the plaster detachment and no engineering or audit report has been released as of now.
- BEST Committee member Nitin Nandgaonkar has written to the administration demanding priority structural audits and repairs, warning that several depots are in dangerous condition and singling out Vikhroli as especially risky.
- The incident echoes a July collapse of a false ceiling in a 30-year-old Rabodi building that led to evacuations and municipal inspections, and it could trigger wider depot inspections, repair work and closer oversight of worker safety at BEST sites.