Investigators probing the May 13 hoarding collapse incident of Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area, have now directed their attention towards a series of money transactions that link between the company that owned the illegal hoarding, to a business associate of an IPS’s wife, The Indian Express has reported. The incident had claimed 17 lives and injured more than 60 people.
According to the report, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case has found that Ego Media Pvt Ltd, which owned the illegal 140×120 ft hoarding, remitted Rs 46.5 lakh through 39 transactions into 10 different bank accounts between 2021 and 2022, and all the money was allegedly taken by one person identified as Arshad Khan. As per the Registrar of Companies (RoC) records, Khan is a co-director in Mahpara Garments Private Limited, a Mumbai-based company, where Sumanna Quaisar Khalid, the spouse of IPS Quaisar Khalid, is a co-director as well.
The records also show that both were appointed on June 28, 2022 in the firm which was incorporated in the same month, the report said.
In December 2022, IPS Quaiser Khalid, the then Government Railway Police (GRP) commissioner allowed Ego Media Private Limited to install the structure; he is accused of doing so without receiving mandatory permission from the police chief of Maharashtra.
Khalid has claimed that he is being made a ‘scapegoat.’
