Will take legal action, lodge FIR against those using Samruddhi Expressway: MSRDC

Two days after a 45-year-old man died and three others sustained injuries when the car they were travelling in met with an accident on a stretch of the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway near Jalna which is yet to be thrown open for public, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), which is executing the project, said it will take stricter action against motorists traveling on the ‘closed’ expressway.

MSRDC officials said they will also file FIRs against motorists who are accessing the expressway without the requisite authorisation. “Nobody is allowed to travel on the expressway before it is inaugurated as it is risky to do so. We have started to take stricter measures. We have now put up barricades, sought patrolling on the stretch and kept the interchanges shut.