Upset with road work, corporators ‘lock’ civic official in cabin

The corporators said they snatched the official’s phone and locked him in for more than four hours. They opened the doors only after they got a surety from additional municipal commissioner SVR Srinivas, in-charge of roads and traffic department, Pednekar added.

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When contacted, Sanjay Darade, the deputy chief engineer roads (city), denied the incident. “The corporators were only listing their issues and we have taken due note of their grievances. The reports of them locking me up in my cabin are false. There was no issue at all,” he said.

On Thursday, deputy municipal commissioner Ranjit Dhakane allegedly manhandled junior official Vijay Mankar owing to lack of cleanliness in Borivali. Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta had called for an explanation from Dhakane on Friday and also asked additional municipal commissioner Sanjay Deshmukh, in-charge of the western suburbs, to inquire into the incident.

A senior official from BMC said, “The report will be submitted to the commissioner in a day or two, following which he will take action against the official.”

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