Mumbai road scam: Three more held

Three more persons were today arrested in connection with the Rs 350-crore Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) road scam, taking the total number of people in police custody so far to 22.
Site engineers Dattatraya Sudan Dhas (26) of Mahavir Roads & Infra, Ashish Ramnath Jaiswal (27) of J.Kumar-K.R. Construction (JV) and Rishikesh Gajanan Shinde (23) of J.Kumar-K.R. Constructions were arrested, a senior police officer said.
Yesterday, police had arrested five site engineers in connection with the scam.
Last year, Mumbai Mayor Snehal Ambekar had written to BMC chief Ajoy Mehta complaining about the poor quality of newly-constructed roads in the city, police had said.

A Special Investigating Team (SIT) was formed under the leadership of assistant commissioner of police (ACP, Colaba Division) Rajendra Chavan to probe the case, said police.
According to police, a case was registered in this regard at the Azad Maidan police station on April 27, after the BMC's internal inquiry revealed that more than two dozen roads in the city were of poor quality.
The investigators had found that the arrested accused were hand in glove with the contractors concerned in the roads scam, police had said.