Black money in BMC polls under I-T lens Toddler falls from 14th-floor window at Bandstand, dies

in election campaigns.

The exercise will begin with around 30-40 electoral wards identified on the basis of initial observation and the ITOs will closely monitor expenditure of candidates in those wards.

A team of 40 ITOs will also monitor the spending in nine other municipal corporations in Maharashtra going to polls next month.

The state election commission (SEC) has decided to crack down on massive use of black money during the polls. They have also instructed banks to report any kind of suspicious transactions or cash withdrawals to the elections monitoring committee headed by BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta.

A 21-month-old boy fell to his death from a 14th-floor window of a building at Bandstand in Bandra (West) on Saturday.

The incident took place around 9am when Soham Chanabasawa Balate was playing in the sitting room of the apartment on the 14th floor of Sea Bird building. While his parents and grandparents were present in the house, Soham was alone in the sitting room.

According to the police, the toddler climbed on to the parapet by sliding the glass window, which did not have a safety grill, and fell as he lost balance. The boy suffered multiple injuries and died on the spot.

Soham and his parents, who are from Nanded, came to Mumbai on January 5 to visit his 60-year-old grandfather, Ganpati Morge, who was diagnosed with cancer.