India, Dec. 11 -- Two more arrests have been made in the Mithi River desilting case, taking the total number of arrests to five. The two contractors who have been arrested had played an important role in faking documents submitted to the civic body to claim money against bills for work that was never done, according to an officer with the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police.

Police said that although no silt was removed from the Mithi River, these contractors had submitted forged Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), log sheets and other documents to show that silt had been removed and dumped.

"We have arrested Mahesh Purohit of MB Brothers and Sunil Upadhyay of SNB Infrastructure. Both were added as accused in the supplement...