India, March 8 -- Ghatkopar hoarding collapse case:

MUMBAI: Arshad Khan, an accused in the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse incident of May 14, 2024, which claimed the lives of 17 people and injured several others, has claimed that he was not a beneficiary of any amount involved in the case. Through his bail plea filed before the sessions court on Friday, Khan claimed that the accounts to which Rs.84 lakh was transferred by the firm, Ego Media and Gujju Ads, did not belong to him.

This is the second bail application filed by Khan, after the previous plea was rejected on January 22 this year.

According to the police, Quaisar Khalid, the then railway police commissioner, gave Ego Media the approval to install the hoarding along the Eastern Ex...