India, July 15 -- Days after the collapse at the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation's (PCMC) Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plant in Moshi claimed nine lives, Pimpri Chinchwad police on Tuesday arrested the project head of Antony Lara Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd., the first arrest in the case.

The arrest came hours after an FIR was registered late on Monday night at the MIDC Bhosari police station. Police said the accused was arrested in Pimpri as part of the ongoing investigation.

The arrested accused has been identified as Ashok Kumar Gupta (59), project head of Antony Lara Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd. A resident of Moshi and originally from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Gupta was injured in the July 8 incident and is now in police custody. Effort...