Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan’s uncle and aunt die in Ghatkopar hoarding collapse incident

The official said that five interconnected girders of the hoarding had to be cut one by one to rescue the bodies of the couple. (Image via X)

The two bodies that were discovered on Wednesday at the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse site in Mumbai have been identified as those of Manoj Chansoriya (60), and Anita (59), who are the relatives of Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan.

Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the bodies of a retired general manager of Air Traffic Control (ATC) Manoj Chansoriya and his wife Anita were pulled out from a car stuck underneath the structure. Authorities said the bodies were found in a decomposed state and it looked as if the couple died on the spot.

The Brihnmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had called off the search and rescue operation at the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse site in Mumbai, an official of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said on Thursday.

The operation went on for 66 hours after a giant 120 feet x 120 feet hoarding collapsed on a petrol pump in the Chheda Nagar area during gusty winds on Monday evening, the official said.

The official said that five interconnected girders of the hoarding had to be cut one by one to rescue the bodies of the couple.

Bhavesh Bhinde, an advertising firm's director, whose company had put up the giant hoarding that collapsed in Mumbai killing 16 people, was brought to the city early on Friday, a police official said.

Bhinde, director of M/s Ego Media Pvt. Ltd., the advertising agency which recently installed the billboard that crashed in suburban Ghatkopar on Monday evening, was apprehended from Udaipur in Rajasthan on Thursday, he said.

The 120 feet x 120 feet hoarding collapsed onto a nearby petrol pump in the Chhedanagar area in Ghatkopar during gusty winds and heavy unseasonal rains, killing 16 people and injuring 75 others. The 120 feet x 120 feet hoarding collapsed onto a nearby petrol pump in the Chhedanagar area in Ghatkopar during gusty winds and heavy unseasonal rains, killing 16 people and injuring 75 others.

After the tragedy, a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the IPC was registered at the Pant Nagar Police Station against Bhinde, all directors of the advertising agency Ego Media, its officials and employees, officials had said earlier. (With PTI Inputs)