Overview
- A large mound of legacy garbage at the Moshi sanitary landfill slid onto the waste‑to‑energy plant’s three‑storey administrative building, killing nine people and trapping others when the collapse occurred on July 8.
- Pimpri‑Chinchwad police have registered an FIR invoking culpable‑homicide and related charges and arrested the company’s project head while the plant’s safety officer has been booked and is receiving treatment in hospital.
- The municipal corporation has issued show‑cause notices to the contractor Antony Lara Renewable Energy and to two senior PCMC engineers and has relieved those engineers of key duties pending their written replies.
- The Maharashtra Urban Development Department has set up a high‑level technical inquiry led by the Pune divisional commissioner with experts from the pollution board and IIT Bombay, empowered to summon records and witnesses and due to deliver a preliminary report in one month.
- Investigations focus on alleged safety and permitting lapses — including claims the building had occupancy only for the ground floor and stood closer to the landfill than allowed — against a backdrop of long‑running waste backlog, prior CPCB non‑compliance flags, and heavy monsoon rain that can destabilise unmanaged landfill slopes.