India, Dec. 4 -- Nearly three weeks after a 63-year-old taxi driver died when his vehicle plunged into the sea off a dilapidated bridge near Bhaucha Dhakka in Mazgaon, the Yellow Gate police have booked two employees of a construction firm responsible for the site for alleged negligence.

The accused-project operation head Satyanarayan Maladi and site safety officer Mahesh Shivaji Sawant of Kargwal Constructions Pvt Ltd-were booked for causing death by negligence, according to an officer from the Yellow Gate police station.

The incident occurred on the night of November 13, when the taxi driver, Jayprakash Sharma, was looking for passengers near Bhaucha Dhakka, one of Mumbai's oldest fishing harbours. While driving across an old, dilapid...