India, March 26 -- The Reliance Infrastructure-Astaldi Joint Venture SPA (RAJV) consortium, whom the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has blamed for the February 14 accident at a metro site in Mulund, had ignored safety warnings on at least three occasions earlier, officials from the planning authority told Hindustan Times.

The consortium has also failed to submit reports regarding the accident that left one dead and injured three others, officials said.

"We had sought incident and investigation reports from the civil contractor on February 17, but have not received any documents or witness statements yet," an interim report submitted by the general consultant consortium (DB-Hill International-Louis Berger) to th...