Overview

• Meghwadi police arrested site engineer Shambhu Kumar Palat Paswan and site manager Gaurav Dineshbhai Sondagar on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and secured their custody until October 14.
• An FIR names developer Shraddha Lifestyle LLP under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 3(5) (common intention) after 22-year-old Sanskruti Amin was fatally struck by a falling concrete block on October 8.
• Construction at the Shivkunj site is halted as police continue their probe, with officers indicating further arrests are possible.
• A rotating blade fell from the same site on Saturday in a near-miss that injured no one, heightening fears about continuing safety failures.
• Roughly 1,000 residents and cross-party leaders held a candlelight march, submitted demands to the BMC and police for the builder’s arrest and a citywide safety audit, and the developer maintained the death was an accident with protocols followed.