The BMC on Friday informed Bombay high court that when the decision to allot contracts to the allegedly tainted contractors was taken, there was no complaint against them and hence, the decision was r
The BMC on Friday informed Bombay high court that when the decision to allot contracts to the allegedly tainted contractors was taken, there was no complaint against them and hence, the decision was right.
BMC counsel Anil Sakhre argued before a division bench of Justice Shantanu Kemkar and Justice M.S. Karnik that as per BMC rules, contracts could not be awarded to any contractor whose license had been suspended or registration cancelled however in this case, the process of bidding was already over when FIR was lodged on the instructions of BMC Commissioner. The court was hearing a PIL filed by social activist, Jaishree Khadilkar, objecting to BMC’s decision to award contracts to tainted contractors.
Advocate Sakhre also told the court that the vacation bench had observed that show cause notice was deliberately delayed but the fact was that no homework was required to register FIR and hence, the case was registered within 24 hours but to issue show cause notice, considerable time was required to decide on what grounds it would be issued. He further stated that various departments were concerned with this and hence, five senior officers of different departments of BMC were required to sit together and prepare show cause notice and hence, it took 21 days to issue show cause notice.
