While junior engineer Sudarshan Wahikar has been suspended and a
departmental inquiry initiated against him, the municipal corporation
has issued a warning to city engineer M T Kamble. Besides, it has
stopped salary increments of deputy engineer Sanjay Kamble and added a
note in the service records of executive engineer Makarand Nikam.
The corporation had earlier sought explanation from M T Kamble and
Nikam. It had also issued show-cause notices to deputy engineer Sanjay
Kamble and junior engineer Sudarshan Wahikar.

The incident occurred on March 25 when a slab of an under-construction building in Udyognagar near Chinchwad railway station
collapsed. The total construction area was 10,000 sq ft while the land
area was 3,000 sq ft. Earlier, municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi
had directed Nikam to submit a report on the incident. The report
concluded that the construction was unauthorized.

Meanwhile,
late in the evening on Monday, some 40 junior engineers staged a protest
against the action taken on Sudarshan Wahikar. They said that Wahikar
had taken photographs of the unauthorized construction and that further
action should have been taken by his seniors. Uday Tekale, assistant
commissioner and chief of administration department, said the complaint
will be brought to the notice of the municipal commissioner.