Thane, May 21 (PTI) An official of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra's Thane district was on Wednesday suspended for alleged dereliction of duty, a day after a slab collapse claimed six lives in the area, an official said.

During a surprise visit by the KDMC chief to the Disaster Management Cell at 9.30 am, senior clerk Yogesh Yadav Patil, rostered for duty from 6 am to 2 pm, was found to be absent, he said.

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The civic commissioner, Abhinav Goyal, then ordered the suspension of Patil for “breach of office discipline” under Maharashtra Civil Service Rules, the official said.

Six persons, including four women and a two-year-old girl, were killed and six others were injured after a slab of the top floor of a four-storey building in Kalyan under the jurisdiction of KDMC collapsed on the lower floors in a cascading effect on Tuesday, officials said.

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The incident occurred during the flooring work on the fourth floor of the 30-year-old Shri Saptashringi building, which housed 52 families. The building is located in densely populated Mangalaragho Nagar in Kalyan East.

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