Overview
- Laxmi Bhatia, a Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator, said Wednesday that Rs 20,000 went missing from her purse inside the BMC Standing Committee Hall.
- She left her purse on her seat to eat in a nearby room and returned to find it open with items out and the cash gone.
- The hall lacks CCTV, which Bhatia says makes it hard to confirm what happened in a space that handles key finance matters.
- She reported the incident to the BMC security unit and briefed Mayor Ritu Tawde and standing committee chair Prabhakar Shinde.
- Indian Express reported she has now filed a police complaint, and Shinde has asked civic officials to investigate.