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“Government is paying infirmary bills, but we expect compensation arsenic Rajkumar Yadav has a family, who are babelike connected him. It volition instrumentality implicit a twelvemonth to retrieve from the injuries that occurred during the accident,” said Vikas Yadav (31), comparative of Rajkumar Yadav (45) and Mahendra Yadav (52), who were injured successful the Mulund Metro-4 slab illness incident.
According to Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) officials, the mishap happened arsenic a factual parapet conception from the under-construction Metro Line 4 viaduct fell onto the autorickshaw and a car, leaving 3 injured and 1 dead.
The mishap occurred connected February 14, 2026 astir 12.40p.m., erstwhile members of the Yadav family, including Rajkumar, Mahendra, and Ramdhan Yadav, were travelling successful an autorickshaw successful Mumbai’s Mulund country for wedding shopping. Ramdhan died, Rajkumar, Mahendra, and different car driver, Deepa Ruhiya (40), were injured. Autorickshaw operator Rajkumar remains captious successful the ICU, says Vikas.
Ramdhan’s family, who is primitively from Jaunpur territory successful Uttar Pradesh, received 39.5 lakhs arsenic compensation. MMRDA gave ₹15 lakh to the victim’s family, the contractor provided ₹20 lakh, and an further ₹4.50 lakh was fixed for the aerial ambulance to displacement the assemblage to Jaunpur successful Uttar Pradesh. Another ₹5 lakh was announced by the Chief Minister successful compensation. “We received compensation, but request authorities jobs for the children of my brother,” said Ramsamuj Yadav.
This is the seventh incidental since 2022, astatine slightest 5 radical died, including workers, and respective others were injured successful metro-related accidents. On November 25, a supervisor, Farhan Ahmed, died aft falling from a Metro span during an inspection connected Metro enactment 9. In December 2024, a cement mixer motortruck operator, Ashish Gyandas, died during enactment connected Metro enactment 9 and successful August, a idiosyncratic died connected Metro enactment 9 aft falling from a crane. In January 2022, a idiosyncratic died aft a girder crane collapsed during Metro-6-line work.
All these accidents raised concerns implicit the information of the nationalist and workers moving astatine the metro operation site. About 337 km of the metro web volition beryllium built successful the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Out of this, enactment connected 121 km of metro lines is presently underway. In the past fewer days, respective incidents person been reported connected Metro 9, Metro 5 and Metro 4 lines, making information much racking issue. The metro projects clasp the largest stock of the MMRDA budget, i.e. ₹13,838.88 crore, and the enactment connected respective cities is ongoing, including Metro Line 2A (D.N. Nagar to Dahisar), Metro Line 2B (D.N. Nagar to Mandale), Metro Line 4 (Wadala–Kasarvadavali), Metro Line 6 (Swami Samarth Nagar–Kanjurmarg), Metro Line 4A (Kasarvadavali-Gaimukh), and others. MMRDA has ordered a State-level information cell, aiming to show each operation sites of the metro web successful Mumbai.
Action taken connected the accident
So acold successful the lawsuit of the Metro 4 incident, MMRDA imposed a good of ₹5 crores connected the contractor, Milan Road Buildtech LLP, ₹crore connected the consultant, and an probe is underway. MMRDA besides suspended enforcement technologist Satyajeet Salve and 3 others. Calling the advisor “negligent”, MMRDA authoritative said, “A announcement was besides issued 15 days earlier the accident. The declaration is cancelled, and different advisor volition beryllium appointed soon.”
In the incident, MMRDA besides asked constabulary to instrumentality cognisance of the incidental to record the FIR successful a missive dated February 15. According to police, a portion of slab fell arsenic a idiosyncratic had chopped done the interlock betwixt 2 parapet segments, and nary supervisor was contiguous astatine the site. Police booked 7 radical nether Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 110 (attempt to perpetrate culpable homicide), and others of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and arrested Milan’s task director, Harish Chauhan; manager, Kuldeep Sapkal; lawman manager, Saurabh Singh; supervisor, Prashant Bhoir; and DB Hill LBG, supervisory bureau task manager, Avdhoot Inamdar.
DB Hill LBG stands for Deutsche Bahn Engineering and Consulting, Hill International Inc, and Louis Berger Consulting Private Ltd, the institution which was a advisor for the Metro 4 line. The relation of the consultancy is to supervise the contractor, cheque the prime of the work, verify the information measures, get the indispensable permits, and besides cheque whether the contractor has submitted the outgo of the enactment done correctly.
Mumbai-based societal activistic Sagar Devere criticised the authorities for hiring DB Hills LBG contempt having transgression charges. “Louis Berger is accused of being progressive successful a multi-crore bribery lawsuit and has 2 abstracted cases registered against it successful Assam and Goa for allegedly bribing unnamed “officials” to country h2o absorption consultancy projects. It has bribed Indian officials with respective crores of rupees to triumph 2 large h2o developmental projects successful Goa and Guwahati,” helium said.
He besides precocious raised wherefore nary FIR was made against the main contractor and officers, volition tiny food beryllium sacrificed for show? Who is backing managing partner, Aplesh Patel and method manager Ganesh Gholap of Milan Road Buildtech, Madhukar Kharat, manager (Addl. Charge) Metro Line-4, M.M.R.D.A, and Arun Kumar Singh, (project director-(DB Hill -LBG)
“DB Hill LBG’s declaration is terminated, and we person besides sent 150 show-cause notices to the consortium crossed assorted Metro projects successful the past 2 years,” said MMRDA elder official, portion speaking to media persons.
MMRDA has besides constituted a Special Intensive Safety Inspection Team and a Mandatory Corridor-wide inspection programme for Metro Line 4 (Wadala-Kasarvadavali). “This inspection is without prejudice to the ongoing enquiry and to mitigate risk, systemic correction, and nationalist information assurance,” said the MMRDA authority. The committee included the MMRDA squad leader, Basavraj M. Bhadragond, manager (Projects), 2 lawman squad leaders, and 8 members.
