Two criminal cases have been registered against advertising agency owner Bhavesh Bhinde, who allegedly put up an accidental hoarding at a petrol pump in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area and was recently arrested on rape charges, police said on Tuesday evening. . Gave.

He is absconding after the death of at least 14 people in the hoarding accident on Monday, while a case was registered against him under IPC section 304 (causing death by negligence) at Pantnagar police station in the city.

Bhinde was arrested in January in a rape case registered at Mulund police station, but later got bail, a police officer said.

He told that Bhinde, owner of Ego Media, had also contested the Maharashtra Assembly elections in 2009.

According to BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, another company of Bhinde's was blacklisted by the commercial department of the Indian Railways in 2017-18 after several complaints were filed for putting up illegal hoardings.