Overview
- A massive mound of legacy waste slid onto the three-storey administrative building at the Moshi sanitary landfill on Wednesday, July 8, killing nine contract workers and trapping 23 people in total.
- Rescue teams from the NDRF, the army and local agencies pulled nine survivors from the rubble after extended operations while nine bodies were recovered and five people escaped immediately.
- Pimpri-Chinchwad police have registered FIRs invoking culpable-homicide provisions, arrested the project head of Antony Lara Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd and booked the plant safety officer who is in hospital.
- PCMC has issued show-cause notices to the contractor and to two senior civic engineers, relieved the engineers of key duties, and the company has temporarily suspended plant operations pending safety and structural checks.
- The Maharashtra Urban Development Department formed a six-member technical committee with a one-month preliminary and two-month final timeline to examine slope stability, stormwater control, building approvals and rule compliance and to recommend disciplinary, contractual or criminal action.