Overview

• Police have arrested five people, including builder Nittal Gopinath Sane and four relatives of the late plot owner, on culpable-homicide charges tied to the unauthorised structure.
• The case has been transferred to the Mira Bhayander–Vasai Virar crime branch as investigators examine how Ramabai Apartment was built and sold without approvals.
• VVCMC issued structural-audit notices in May but took little follow-up action, officials said, while 28 families from adjacent wings have been evacuated pending audits.
• MHADA will allot 60 transit flats in Bolinj to displaced residents, and the state leadership has backed cluster development and SRA rehabilitation, alongside a ₹5 lakh ex-gratia to next of kin.
• In a wider safety drive, TMC ordered immediate evacuation of 37 C1-category buildings housing 191 families, and Minister Ganesh Naik said 141 unauthorised structures in Vasai–Virar will be razed after the Ganpati festival.