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Five months ago, residents had told builder wall was tilting outwards

Updated on: 29 June,2019 08:17 PM IST  | 
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The residents of Alcon Stylus that the developer of their housing society was already warned about the dangerous condition of the retaining wall

Five months ago, residents had told builder wall was tilting outwards

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The residents of Alcon Stylus alleged on Saturday that they had warned the developer of the housing society about the dangerous condition of the retaining wall of one of the buildings five months ago, but no action was taken.


A portion of the wall collapsed early Saturday morning and fell on the nearby shanties of construction workers, killing 15 persons.


The housing society is located in the Kondhwa area here. "We had a meeting on February 16 with Vivek Agarwal (a partner at  Kondhwa area) over the pending works. We highlighted the condition of the wall, told him that it was tilting outward and its construction quality was not satisfactory," a resident of the housing society said.


The Minutes of Meeting (MoM) was sent to the developer firm by e-mail later, he added. PTI has a copy of the minutes.
However, director of Alcon Landmarks Jagdish Agarwal subsequently told them that the wall was safe and if anything happened, he would take care of it, the resident claimed.

"We have forwarded the e-mail communication with the builder to the Pune Municipal Corporation and police," another resident said.

The police on Saturday registered a case of culpable homicide against Jagdishprasad Agarwal (64), Sachin Agarwal (34), Rajesh Agarwal (27), Vivek Agarwal (21) and Vipul Agarwal (21) of Alcon Landmarks, and Pankaj Vora, Suresh Shah and Rashmikant Gandhi of the Kanchan Royal Exotica project for which excavation work was going on.

It is believed that the excavation weakened the base of the wall of Alcon Stylus.

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