A plumber from Vasai who set up the Somaiya Covid jumbo centre at Sion has filed a case against a BMC contractor for not paying his dues of around Rs 7.5 lakh. The 35-year-old complainant has told the Juhu police that he took great risks to work on the project in the middle of the pandemic but was later snubbed by the accused. 

The police on Thursday registered a case against the contractor Gaurav Agarwal, who owns Satech Engineering Private Limited at Juhu, and project manager Sudipta Das. No arrests have been made yet. Complainant Raghunath Shivshankar Rai runs Purva Enterprises at Vasai. He said Agarwal got in touch with him on September 9, 2021, and spoke to him about a Covid jumbo centre near Somaiya engineering college. Rai agreed to do the work.