Mumbai: Mumbai Police have arrested a key accused within the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse case from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
The accused, recognized as businessman Arshad Khan (42), was on the run for the final seven months after being referred to as to file his assertion in reference to the case, an official mentioned.
As many as 17 individuals have been killed and greater than 80 injured after the large unlawful hoarding crashed on a petroleum pump in Ghatkopar space right here amid gusty winds and rain on Might 13.
In the course of the investigation, it got here to mild that Ego Media Personal Restricted, which put in the hoarding, had transferred Rs 82 lakh to the financial institution accounts of some individuals linked to Arshad Khan, the official mentioned.
Khan was a enterprise affiliate of the spouse of former Authorities Railway Police (GRP) commissioner Quaiser Khalid, he mentioned.
After recording his preliminary assertion, Khan didn’t flip up earlier than the Mumbai Police’s Particular Investigation Group (SIT), which has been conducting the probe into the case.
The police have been trying to find Khan for the final couple of months, however he stored altering his location, the official mentioned.
Khan was lastly apprehended from Lucknow on Sunday, he added.
Khalid, who was the Authorities Railway Police commissioner when the hoarding was sanctioned on the GRP land, has been suspended for alleged lapses.
There have been a number of transactions from the financial institution accounts of Ego Media Personal Restricted to the accounts of individuals linked to Khan.
Most of those transactions came about when Khalid was GRP commissioner, police earlier claimed.
