The Mumbai crime branch officials have arrested a couple of clerks working with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for allegedly forging documents and selling Class IV jobs to handpicked persons.
An FIR has been registered against the two clerks working in G-south ward under relevant sections of the IPC for cheating and forgery. Deputy commissioner of police, detection, Dhananjay Kulkarni, said, “Their role was to get forged documents and give jobs to handpicked persons.”
The jobs in question were meant for the kin of those Class IV BMC workers who had died, retired or taken voluntary retirement. This is the second such case registered against the BMC by crime branch. In a similar racket last year, nearly 13 persons were arrested including BMC officials.
The two accused, along with other wanted accused, have already given jobs to 18 persons in the solid waste department by forging documents to show they are kin of BMC employees who died, retired or took voluntary retirement.
The racket also discriminated against kin of BMC employees eligible for the jobs.
According to the Crime Branch, more persons have been given jobs through the same modus operandi.
CB Unit III began investigating the racket last year and arrested about 13 persons involved in the crime, including BMC officials. During the course of the investigation, they learnt about another racket with the same modus operandi but being carried out by different persons. It transpired that these persons were employees of BMC. After the Mumbai police commissioner granted permission to initiate action against BMC employees, CB arrested them.
The accused were produced before a magistrate’s court and remanded to police custody. The CB said that more accused are wanted in the case. It is likely that higher-ups in the BMC are hand-in-glove with the arrested clerks.
