Overview
- A massive mound of legacy waste slid onto a three-storey administrative building at the Moshi waste-to-energy site on July 8, killing nine contract workers and trapping about 23 people in an 84-hour rescue effort.
- Police have registered an FIR naming the project head and the plant safety officer and have arrested project head Ashok Kumar Gupta on charges including culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
- The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has suspended Chief Engineer Sanjay Kulkarni and Executive Engineer Yogesh Alhat, issued show-cause notices and opened departmental inquiries into alleged lapses in monitoring and safety enforcement.
- The Maharashtra government has formed an independent technical committee with MPCB and IIT Bombay experts to probe slope stability, stormwater and waste-management failures and to recommend corrective steps.
- PCMC has partially reopened the depot for limited waste, diverted other loads to alternate sites and announced cash aid for victims while the contractor says it will cover medical costs and offer compensation and support to families.