Mumbai: Aaditya Thackeray warns BMC chief of action in road construction 'scam'

Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday sought to drag Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC chief I S Chahal in the alleged road construction scam and said the guilty will go to jail when his party returns to power in Maharashtra reported news agency PTIAaditya Thackeray said injustice was being meted out to Maharashtra by the Centre and the state government and investments were being taken to Gujarat reported PTII am firm on the allegations of Rs 6080 crore road construction scam exposed by me We will form the next government and when we come to power those involved in malpractice will go to jail the Shiv Sena UBT MLA said while addressing party workers in south Mumbai reported PTIThis is an open and shut case of corruption I want to tell the BMC administrator who is also the Municipal Commissioner that you are involved in the scam Beware Aaditya Thackeray said reported PTIChahal was appointed BMC Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner by the erstwhile Uddhav Thackerayled Maha Vikas Aghadi government The Shiv Sena undivided controlled the BMC for 25 years from 1997 to 2022 Chahal was later appointed as the administrator of BMC after its fiveyear term expired and elections were not heldChahal had won accolades for his work during the COVID19 pandemic when MVA was in power However he has been targeted by Aaditya Thackeray since the collapse of the MVA government in June 2022Thackeray had also alleged a Rs 263 crore scam in the purchase of street furnitureMeanwhile in November last year the Mumbai Police registered a case against Shiv Sena UBT MLA Aaditya Thackeray and some other leaders of his party for allegedly inaugurating part of a bridge in Lower Parel area of the city without the civic bodys permission an official said reported the PTIAccording to the PTI the first information report FIR in this connection was registered based on a complaint lodged by a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC official he saidThe complaint said that the Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray MLCs Sachin Ahir and Sunil Shinde former Mumbai mayors Kishori Padnekar and Snehal Ambekar and 15 to 20 others inaugurated the second carriageway of the Delisle Bridge in Lower Parel on Thursday night without the permission of the BMC commissioneradministrator the news agency reportedThe act was deemed illegal by the BMC as the bridge was still incomplete and not certified safe for use the official said adding that concerns were also raised over the potential risk the premature use of the bridge posed to motoristsBased on the complaint the FIR under the Indian Penal Code IPC sections 143 149 both pertaining to unlawful assembly 336 rash or negligent act and 447 criminal trespass was registered against Thackeray and others he saidWith inputs from PTI