Citing the death of a 23-year-old man who was run over by a bus after he fell off his motorcycle on hitting a pothole in Thane, the Bombay High Court has asked civic bodies to take prompt action whenever they get complaints of potholes.

A bench of Justices A K Menon and M S Karnik said that the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) must take action against those responsible for not having complied with a 2018 high court order on fixing potholed stretches and repairing roads across the state.