Updated On: 07 December, 2024 08:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan
MMRDA fines contractor Rs 30 lakh for Mira Rd incident; promises compensation to victim’s kin

While reversing, the road unexpectedly caved in, causing the mixer to overturn. File pics
In the cement mixer cave-in accident, the Kashimira police in Mira Road have booked the site engineer of J Kumar Company based on a complaint filed by the mixer cleaner. According to the sources and the cleaner, when the driver arrived at the site, the engineer was absent but had called to instruct him to park the mixer there. While reversing, the road unexpectedly caved in, causing the mixer to overturn. The driver, identified as 25-year-old Ashish Gyanadas Kumar, was trapped inside and tragically died on the spot.
The incident occurred on Wednesday night at the Metro construction site near Makka House in Mira Road. Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, had been working as a mixer driver for 10 months. He had brought the mixer from the J Kumar plant near the Shivaji Maharaj Statue. The site supervisor, engineer Shashank Sharma, had instructed Kumar over the phone to dump the cement in a pit near the Makka House Metro construction site.