MUMBAI, 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. Datta Nalawade, deputy commissioner of police (Zone 10), said CCTV footage from a hotel on Kherani Road showed the contractor and his labourers carrying out work on the manhole without installing barricades or warning signs, despite having opened it. The FIR has been registered under sections 106(1) (causing death by a rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide) and 3(5) (common intention) of the BNS, 2023. "Our investigation found that the contractor and the labourers failed to take safety precautions," said an officer....