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Mumbai: BMC shifts blame onto grieving family for fatal toilet tragedy
Updated On: 26 April, 2024 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Eshan Kalyanikar
Civic body officials point fingers at family’s alleged “wrongdoings” in the tragic incident
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Ramlagan’s daughter Sunita (centre), flanked by a neighbour and her younger brother, comforts her mother at the deceased’s residence in Malwani, Malad. File pic
On March 21, at the BMC community toilet in Malad’s Ambujwadi, three members of a family died while cleaning a water tank contaminated with faecal leakage from an adjoining septic tank. One month later, BMC’s P North ward officials prepared a report confirming this but attributed the tragedy to the family’s “wrongdoings.”
Assistant Commissioner Kiran Dighavkar stated that the report, prepared by the executive engineer, had been submitted to the ward’s deputy commissioner. While the officials have not released the report to the press, Dighavkar said, “We have found that they had punctured the water tank to increase the capacity of the septic tank to avoid cleaning it frequently, which was their wrongdoing as that amounts to structural damage.”
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