Overview
- The Crime Branch announced a Special Investigation Team on Tuesday to examine forged birth registrations across the city.
- The team is led by Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Lakhmi Gautam and includes senior officers from the crime, special branch and detection units.
- Mayor Ritu Tawde directed the cancellation of 87,347 certificates from the past two to three years and asked officials to initiate a police case.
- A BMC review found that from 2024 to 2026 many corrections were made on the BMC’s old SAP-CPWM platform instead of the mandatory Civil Registration System, flagging 87,347 SAP entries versus 33,772 on the CRS portal.
- Police registered an FIR in February against two former civic health officials with no arrests reported yet, while a ward-wise audit, staff transfers and suspensions, and new complaints by BJP leaders keep pressure on the probe, including allegations the documents aided illegal immigrants.