MUMBAI, Feb. 18 -- Over the last two-and-half years, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) issued more than 150 notices to the general consultant in charge of Mumbai Metro-4 and other projects and yet paid them a sum of Rs.380 crore, officials said. The consultant has been sacked following Saturday's accident that claimed a life and injured three others in Mulund. Most of the 150 notices related to work on Metro 4, which is being built by a consortium of Reliance Infrastructure and Astaldi SPA (RAJV) along with sub-contractor Milan Road Buildtech. Rather than holding the contractors accountable, the general consultant, a consortium of DB Engineering & Consulting, Hill International and Louis Berger, forwarded these notices to the contractors but failed to act when they did not hear back. MMRDA too failed to act when its notices went unaddressed but, inexplicably, continued to make payments to the consultant, amounting to Rs.380 crore over the last 8 years. P3...