New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- Daman and Diu's Lok Sabha MP approached the Supreme Court seeking a Special Investigating Team (SIT) probe into the allegations of financial irregularities in the handling of funds for the Daman Secretariat building by the officials of the Union Territory.

Lok Sabha MP Umeshbhai Babubhai Patel urged the apex court to monitor the SIT investigation and also sought to direct the Centre to register an FIR regarding the allegations. The petition, filed on Thursday, claimed that financial irregularities were committed by the official of the Administration of Daman and Diu in the renovation, demolition and restoration of the Union Territory Secretariat Building at Daman.

The plea said that a tender was floated in October ...