municipal commissioner

BMC

Law Department

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Ajoy Mehta

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Mehta’s note that was tampered with. Notice the should changed to shouldn’t

And this despite the thenAjoy Mehta – now the state’s top bureaucrat – criticising his officers in the harshest terms possible and calling the’s“compromised”A set of BMC officials used every dirty trick in the book – including tampering with the municipal commissioner’s file notings – to make sure the city lost aworth Rs 500 crore. But an inquiry has let them off the hook lightlyAnd this despite the then municipal commissioner– now the state’s top bureaucrat – criticising his officers in the harshest terms possible and calling the BMC’s Law Department “compromised”If you ever hoped to see the BMC free of corruption, this report should dash all your hopes for once and for all.Every single accused in one of the most embarrassing case of sabotage in the municipal corporation – in which senior civic officials were charged with making sure the city lost a plot ofworth Rs 500 crore in– has got off lightly.Out of the 23 officials accused in the case – in which the then municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehta’s file notings were allegedly changed before being presented at the Supreme Court – five have been given a clean chit. One senior officer will never get an increment again, while five have been fined between Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000. One retired officer will lose 10 per cent of his pension and two will lose increments for a period of one and two years respectively.The probe against five officers is still underway. All four suspended officials, however, have either retired or have been reinstated. And this is the case where Ajoy Mehta had famously said his “officials colluded” to deny the people of this space-starved city a plot of land and had added that “there can’t be anything more serious and fatal for an organisation than its Law Department itself being compromised.”