India, May 8 -- A day after booking 13 people in connection with the alleged Rs.65-crore Mithi River desilting scam, the Mumbai police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has arrested two of the accused-Ketan Kadam and Jayesh Joshi-who allegedly acted as intermediaries in the supply of equipment.

Kadam is the director of Woder India LLP, a Mumbai-based company that provides desilting services, while Joshi is associated with Virgo Specialties Pvt Ltd, a Mumbai-based industrial product manufacturer.

According to the police, the two arrested accused acted as intermediaries in renting out silt pusher machines and multipurpose amphibious dredging equipment supplied by Kochi-based Matprop Technical Services Pvt Ltd. They allegedly charged the Brih...