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more-inThe Bombay High Court on Tuesday quashed an FIR against four employees of a firm that maintains the Sion-Panvel Highway. On July 4, one person was killed and several injured near the Uran Phata bridge after a truck hit an auto-carrier. They had been accused of causing death of a person by failing to repair and maintain the road. A plea was filed in the High Court challenging the FIR. The police claimed that the accident was the result of the ill-maintained road, and booked officials of Sion Panvel Tollways Private Ltd, the firm that had been awarded a contract for the construction of the Uran Phata Bridge and the maintenance of Uran Panvel Road..