CM Eknath Shinde announces Rs 3 lakh financial aid for kin of Kiwale hoarding collapse incident

“The chief minister has expressed deep anguish over the death of five persons and has announced assistance of Rs three lakh for their relatives,” said a tweet from on the CMO Maharashtra handle.

कात्रज-देहू मार्गावरील किवळे ओव्हरब्रीज सर्व्हिस रोडवर वादळी वाऱ्यामुळे होर्डिंग कोसळून झालेल्या दुर्घटनेत पाच जणांचा मृत्यू झाला आहे. या दुर्घटनेबद्दल मुख्यमंत्री एकनाथ शिंदे यांनी तीव्र दुःख व्यक्त केले असून मृतांच्या नातेवाईकांना प्रत्येकी तीन लाख रुपयांची मदत जाहीर केली आहे.

— CMO Maharashtra (@CMOMaharashtra) April 18, 2023

Five persons, including four women, were killed and three others were seriously injured after the steel structure of the hoarding collapsed next to a service road on the Katraj Dehu Road Bypass in Kiwale area near Pune on Monday evening.

The incident took place around 5.30 pm on the service road of the Mumbai Bangalore Highway’s bypass. Officials of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation told The Indian Express that the hoarding was illegally constructed.

The police have registered a suo motu FIR of culpable homicide. The owner of the land, the contractor who erected the hoarding, the advertiser and the one who had rented the space have been booked, said the police.