India, July 4 -- A day after 55-year-old Aslam Shaikh was swept into an unguarded, 30-foot-deep open manhole and died in Sakinaka, the Sakinaka police on Friday registered an FIR against a civic contractor and three labourers engaged by him, holding them responsible for the fatal incident on Kherani Road in Andheri East.

Police said the three labourers have been detained for questioning, while the contractor is absconding. A manhunt has been launched to trace him.

The death came just days after the Bombay High Court pulled up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over manhole safety and called for measures to ensure such deaths do not recur. The incident also echoed in the Maharashtra Assembly, where Speaker Rahul Narwekar said m...