India, March 1 -- Shiv Sena UBT leader Anil Parab has alleged that a tender for the Mithi River desilting work has been rigged using "restrictive practices" and selective conditions to favor a particular company, potentially causing a loss of Rs.90 crore to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Parab said this was part of a larger atmosphere of corruption in the project, which has been underway for the last two decades. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police has, in fact, been investigating irregularities and misappropriation of funds in the desilting work.

In a letter to municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, Parab has pointed to an alleged attempt to rig and "cartelise tend...