Mumbai Hoarding Case: Police revealed secret in court
Mumbai Hoarding Case: police revealed secret in court…Mumbai police told a court here on wednesday that the quality of the hoardings that fell in the city's Ghatkopar area earlier this month was 'poor'. The police also requested to extend the police custody of the main accused in the case, Bhavesh Bhide, by one more day.The Metropolitan Magistrate (Mahanagar Magistrate) court accepted the plea and extended Bhide's police custody till Thursday. Bhide, director of Ego media Private Limited, was arrested from Udaipur, rajasthan on May 16. On May 13, during a dust storm and unseasonal rain in Ghatkopar area of mumbai, a huge hoarding put up by Ego media on a petrol pump fell down, killing 17 people.In its plea seeking extension of custody, mumbai police Crime Branch said that Ego media has 28 hoardings in the metropolitan area and the monthly income of the accused is in crores of rupees, but still the construction of the hoarding that fell was of poor quality and as a result 17 innocent people lost their lives and more than 80 people were injured. The plea said that Bhide has also put up illegal hoardings at other places through an illegal company set up in the name of his associates and the investigators want to get information about such hoardings from him as they can also pose a threat.The plea said that some of the companies started by him in the past were blacklisted by the authorities and their loan accounts turned into NPAs due to their mismanagement. police said that Bhide was in the hoarding business for a long time, but in the pursuit of earning more profit, he compromised on the quality of hoardings. It said that it has not yet been investigated where he sent the money earned from the hoarding business.