BMC's road building scam: HC orders charge-sheeting in 4 wks

The Bombay High Court today ordered the Economic Offences Wing of the city police to file charge sheet against Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials and others involved in a road building scam within four weeks.
A division bench of justices R M Sawant and S S Jadhav dismissed a request made by the investigating agency for more time to file charge sheet in the case.
The court said the FIR was registered in the case over a year ago and both the EOW and the civic body had already taken much time to identify the officials involved in the case.
The EOW filed an affidavit in court today saying they were still probing the roles and responsibilities of BMC engineers concerned with the case and that the probe into the case was of a technical nature.

The court was hearing a petition by city resident Vivekanand Gupta alleging serious irregularities on the part of BMC in building roads and de-silting drains between 2013 and 2016.
In the last hearing, the EOW had submitted in a sealed cover, a report of its "interim probe" into the scam. It had also informed the court that 24 people had already been arrested in the case and that further investigations were on.