Thane, Aug 22 (TOI): Infuriated over the "delaying tactics" adopted by an accused in the Lucky Compound building collapse case, a court ordered an arrest warrant against suspended assistant municipal commissioner Shyam Thorbole.

Thorbole, who remained absent for the hearing, gave an application of absence that the court rejected and ordered the warrant against him. He was arrested some months before to the building crash in another case by the Thane unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a Mumbra resident for going slow on civic demolitions . The case is pending in the court. Meanwhile, the prosecution claimed that the court is likely to frame charges against the accused on Monday.

In June 2015 while disposing bail applications, the high court had given a specific order to the Thane court to expedite the case within 18 months. Now nearly 14 months on, the case has not moved an inch ahead due to the "delaying tactics" of the accused who filed repeatedly filed discharge applications. Some of the accused filed applications in the court that the prosecutor should explain the role attributed to each accused separately before the charges are framed. In the process and following the application a couple of months were lost. Some of the accused preferred to remain absent on the dates of hearing, which annoyed the judge.

Special public prosecutor Shishir Hirey has urged the court to try all the accused under IPC Section 302 (murder).