Mumbai: A 100-year-old building — Shanti Darshan — on SV Road, Malad West, was demolished by the civic authorities on Thursday as it was it was creating a traffic bottleneck on the busy road and also, was in a dilapidated condition — categorised as dangerous. Nearly 17 families and 19 commercial tenements housed in the building had vacated after the …
Mumbai The building collapse, which claimed at least 19 lives and injured many others in Kurla east on Monday night, could have been averted if the occupants accepted the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s audit report in 2013, which declared it ‘dilapidated’. Over the three years, several notices were issued to the occupants of the building, urging them to start repairs or …
