"Will Cooperate": Mumbai Civic Body Chief On Care Centre Contracts Probe
NDTV
Talking to reporters after emerging out of the ED office, where he recorded his statement for more than four hours, Mr Chahal said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was extending all cooperation to the central agency.
Mumbai civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal said jumbo COVID-19 care centres were set up on the Maharashtra government's orders as he recorded his statement with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today in connection with alleged irregularities in award of contracts for health facilities during the pandemic.
Talking to reporters after emerging out of the ED office, where he recorded his statement for more than four hours, Mr Chahal said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was extending all cooperation to the central agency.
The BMC commissioner reached the ED office at Ballard Estate in south Mumbai around 11.40 am and walked out shortly after 4 pm.
The central financial crime probe agency had earlier summoned the senior bureaucrat to record his statement in the matter.
