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Probe official nexus with extortionists

In the last two days, the BMC has carried out demolition drive against hotels across the city that were found flouting fire and other safety norms for a long time

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Civic chief Ajoy Mehta has directed all seven zonal deputy municipal commissioners (DMC) to carry out investigation against officials from the Fire, Health, and Building and Factory departments and check whether they are in cahoots with people who file RTI applications to extort hoteliers, businessmen or residents who are found to be breaching norms.

In the last two days, the BMC has carried out demolition drive against hotels across the city that were found flouting fire and other safety norms for a long time.

Since officials from the Fire, Health and Building and Factory departments did not take any action, these hotels continue to flourish for a long time.

Mehta has asked the seven DMCs to investigate how many of them had a nexus with people who lodge complainants just to extort money from violators.

The civic chief has not given a deadline to the DMCs.

Mehta said he firmly believes there is a nexus between BMC employees and such "professional complainants" because of which several establishments are flourishing despite not having the requisite permissions.

Several RTI activists from the city are up in arms over Mehta's contention. But Mehta iterated that the administration has launched an inquiry into how complainants with vested interests and a "very small" number of BMC staffers profit from violations.

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