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An authoritative from the Virar-Vasai Municipal Corporation (VVMC) has been arrested successful transportation with the gathering illness successful Maharashtra's Palghar district, successful which 17 radical mislaid their lives successful August, an authoritative said connected Friday (December 5, 2025).
The Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) constabulary arrested Gilson Gonsalves, the Assistant Commissioner of the VVMC ward C, connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) night, an authoritative said.
Ramabai Apartment, an unauthorised four-storey building, collapsed onto an adjacent vacant tenement astatine Vijay Nagar successful Virar country of Palghar, adjoining Mumbai, connected August 26. At slightest 17 people, including 2 children, were killed successful the incident.
With the latest arrest, six radical person been booked successful the case. The Virar constabulary had earlier arrested developer Neetal Sane, who remains successful custody, and 2 women, who owned the onshore connected which the operation was built, and their husbands, who collected rent from the residents.
According to Crime Branch officials, Gonsalves, who was successful complaint of ward C, failed to instrumentality enactment nether the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning (MRTP) Act, 1966, contempt a structural audit flagging the gathering arsenic unsafe and unauthorised.
"Assistant Commissioner Gonsalves did not instrumentality the mandated enactment nether the MRTP Act erstwhile the structural audit recovered the gathering to beryllium unsafe and its operation was unauthorised. A lawsuit has been registered against him for dereliction of work by colluding with the gathering contractor," an authoritative said.
The building, constructed astir 2012, was confirmed by the VVMC to beryllium illegal, and was built by the landowner and developer without method proposal utilizing substandard materials.
