Although 21 corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have been disqualified since 2007, almost all of them for submitting fake caste certificates, no case has been registered against any of them so far, answer to an RTI query has revealed.
City-based activist Anil Galgali had filed the Right to Information (RTI) query with the civic body, seeking details of the action taken against the disqualified corporators.
Officer of BMC’s legal department, S D Fulsunge, in her reply given recently, said no case has been filed against any corporator ever since their disqualification. She also said that the legal department forwards the election petitions to the Small Causes Court.
The election department said that 20 out of the 21 corporators were disqualified for submitting fake caste certificates, while one of them was disqualified for flouting the two-child norm. They were elected in 2007, 2012 and 2017 civic polls.