India, March 5 -- The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to file within two weeks a detailed reply to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a third-party safety audit of all metro construction sites in the city following last month's slab collapse in Mulund.

A division bench of chief justice Alok Aradhe and justice Gautam Ankhad was hearing the PIL filed by advocate Ruju Thakkar. The petition seeks a halt to metro construction at the accident site in Mulund, a structural safety audit of all metro construction works, and disclosure of compensation paid to the family of the deceased and those injured.

On February 14, a concrete parapet slab from the under-construction ...