The prime suspect, Bhavesh Bhinde, arrested after the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse which claimed 17 lives, had been fined by the civic body multiple times in the past for violation of norms, police probe has found, an official said, reported the PTI.

Bhavesh Bhinde was the director of advertising agency Ego Media which had installed the giant illegal hoarding that crashed on a petrol pump in suburban Ghatkopar during a dust storm on May 13.