Summary:
The director of an audit firm, the first to be arrested after the collapse of the CSMT foot overbridge (FOB), has again filed a plea for bail. In his application, he claimed that “improper” BMC repairs had led to the “gradual failure” of the FOB. Apart from Neeraj Desai, the audit firm director, the police have also arrested two engineers and a former chief engineer of the bridges department. Desai claimed that repairs carried out under the instructions of the Mumbai Municipal Commissioner, which involved the laying of heavy granite stones on the FOB, led to its collapse. AdvertisingSeven people were killed and 33 injured when the FOB collapsed on March 14..