Overview
- A 15-foot Ganesh idol being moved from Vidyavihar to Dharavi, which toppled on Tuesday, injured Santosh Jaiswal and Rohit Jaiswal; both received treatment for minor injuries and were discharged.
- Police and witnesses say the trolley lost balance while negotiating a large, uneven speed breaker on LBS Road in Kurla, which appears to have caused the idol to fall.
- Representatives of the mandal immersed the damaged idol at nearby Sheetal Talao after the accident and no criminal case has been opened so far as investigations continue.
- The Kurla collapse follows a fatal 22-foot idol fall in Bhuleshwar in late August that killed two people and led the BMC to order ward-level inspections of aagman and visarjan routes.
- Mandal leaders, municipal engineers and the Ganeshotsav coordination committee are urging technical SOPs, fitness certificates for large idols and supervised transit to prevent more injuries before the festival starts next week.