The Azad Maidan police on Wednesday marked the first arrests in the Rs 352 crore road repair scam with the arrests of ten third-party auditors for allegedly submitting forged documents to dupe the BMC.The arrested were identified as Santosh Kadam (42), Dheeraj Phuljhele (40), Premanand Dhanawade (37), Rakesh Merwade (34), Mangesh Talekar (33), Dhairyasheel Patil (33), Rahul Shinde (29), Ashfaque Mansoorali Sayyed (26), Milind Kumawat (26) and Pawankumar Shukla (26). The accused are all low-level employees of two firms - SGS Consultancy and Indian Register of Shipping (IRS).“They had filed submissions stating that the roads were repaired and reconstructed as promised to the BMC but the metropolitan agency’s inquiry negated this claim,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Ashok Dudhe, Mumbai Police.Apart from the auditors, contractors including RPS Infraprojects, Mahavir Infraprojects, RK Madhani, J Kumar Infra Projects, KR Constructions and Relcon Infra Projects, have also been named in the FIR although no arrests were recorded.According to the police, though contractors named in the FIR have not been arrested so far, they have not been given a clean chit either and the investigations against them are underway.The arrested were remanded into police custody after they were produced before the Esplanade court on Thursday.The case pertains to a BMC inquiry report in April which found faults in the laying of 34 roads, costing the municipality’s exchequer the eponymous Rs 352 crore.