Overview
- An under-construction brick compound wall collapsed around 4:30 pm Friday at Jyotiba Nagar in Talawade, trapping three labourers.
- Sachin Shankar Rathod, 30, and his wife, Komal, 25, died at the scene, while Manohar Bhiku Chavan, 38, is being treated at Imperial Hospital in Chikhli.
- Relatives gathered at YCM Hospital in Pimpri declined to accept the bodies and demanded compensation from the labour contractor.
- Police said the open plot belongs to businessman Sadashiv Agale, who awarded the work to contractor Deepak Devaji Jadhav, who hired labourers from a local naka.
- Officers moved the bodies to YCM Hospital for postmortem and said further legal action is under consideration as the probe continues.