Mumbai hoarding give contrivance: Billboard proprietor Bhavesh Bhinde arrested from Udaipur

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The Mumbai Police on Wednesday (Could perhaps presumably furthermore honest 15) arrested the proprietor of the firm that had place in the billboard that collapsed in Ghatkopar, killing 16 and injuring 74 others in the west Indian city.

Bhavesh Bhinde, director of Ego Media Pvt Ltd, become once arrested by the Crime Branch from Rajasthan’s Udaipur. News agency ANI reported he become once being brought to Mumbai for extra motion.

The 120×120-foot promoting hoarding in Pant Nagar in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar East had collapsed on Could perhaps presumably furthermore honest 13 after unseasonal rain and gusty winds.

The billboard fell on a busy petrol station. It become once place in on a 10-year lease and defied the permissible norms of 40×40 feet.

Police earlier on Monday had registered instances against the promoting company and the proprietor under sections 304 (culpable extinguish no longer amounting to extinguish), 337 (inflicting wound by act endangering existence or personal security of others), 338 (inflicting crude wound by act endangering existence or personal security of others) and 34 (fashioned plot) of the Indian Penal Code.

Extra than 10 groups of Gujarat police and Mumbai police had been formed to assign Bhinde.

Two more instances registered against Bhinde

Based mostly on media reviews, it be no longer the main that Bhinde has speed afoul of the law.

In January, he become once booked in a rape and molestation case. He managed to salvage an anticipatory bail and escaped the arrest by the Mulund police. The 2d case become once registered in the identical police station in 2016.

Bhinde also tried his success in politics and stood in the assembly election as an self sustaining candidate from Mumbai’s Mulund constituency in 2009.

Sooner than 2009 by myself, Bhinde also had 21 instances registered against him under the Mumbai Municipal Company Act, 1888.

(With inputs from agencies)