High Court Initiates Judicial Probe Into Mumbai Building Collapse

Mumbai Building Collapse: At least 12 people, including eight children, were killed and seven others injured after two floors of a three-storey residential building collapsed on an adjoining single-storey house at Malwani in suburban Mumbai late on Wednesday night.

The Bombay High Court has initiated a judicial inquiry into the building collapse incident in Malwani area of Mumbai, which claimed 12 lives. It said that the incident proved that there existed absolute lawlessness in the municipal wards in Mumbai as well as its adjoining areas. At least 12 people, including eight children, were killed and seven others injured after two floors of a three-storey residential building collapsed on an adjoining single-storey house at Malwani in suburban Mumbai late on Wednesday night. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni directed the inquiry commissioner to submit the preliminary report of the incident by June 24.