There was strong suspicion that while nature may have played its part, laxity by people developing the project led to the tragedy at Airport Road station on the 11.07-km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar metro corridor on September 4. However, an expert committee that probed the issue is silent in its report on who is to be blamed, as Mumbai Metropolitan Region Develop-ment Authority (MMRDA) had kept the negligence part out of the ambit of inquiry.

Blame the rain? A section of an under-construction pillar on the VAG metro corridor collapsed on September 4. A construction worker lost his life and 11 others were injured in the mishap. File pic