Months after mid-day highlighted how a newly constructed road at Aarey Colony developed a crack, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally fined the contractor and quality-monitoring agencies involved.

The civic body has ordered that the cracked stretch be repaired. It has also decided to issue a written warning to engineers and appoint IIT Bombay as a third-party auditor to look into the quality of the work. Repeated mistakes on the part of the contractor could result in blacklisting.