Mumbai police on Thursday arrested Bhavesh Bhinde, whose company put up the giant billboard whose collapse claimed 16 lives, from Udaipur, an officer said.

The crime branch team of Mumbai police arrested Bhinde, the director of Ego Media Pvt Ltd, the advertising agency responsible for erecting the hoarding in the Ghatkopar area of Mumbai.

At least 16 people were killed and 75 injured after the billboard collapsed in an unexpected dust storm in Mumbai on Monday.

The bodies of a retired GM of the Mumbai airport ATC and his wife were retrieved from the wreckage at the crash site on Thursday. The rescue operation was called off in the morning with no hopes of finding survivors three days after the tragedy, officials said.

Former general manager (GM) of Mumbai ATC Manoj Chansoria, 60, and his wife Anita, 59, had been missing since Monday evening when they left for Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh from the ATC guest house in western Mumbai in a car.

Pune collapse

A hoarding installed on the roadside collapsed on a stationary mini truck in the Pimpri Chinchwad area of Maharashtra’s Pune district on Thursday as a result of strong winds, the police said. Nobody was injured.