As per report from Mumbai sources it was stated that RTI activist, Pradeep Bhalekar that the Bombay High Court had asked the state government to justify the early release of actor Sanjay Dutt from jail. It was stated that Bhalekar had served four years jail term before he became an RTI activist and added that "He wants to expose the system's bias towards the high and mighty”.
Furthermore India's biggest municipal bonds program was catapulted by the Pune Municipal Corporation to finance its 24x7 water supply project. It was also stated that the program is the first since the publication of the Issue and Listing of Debt Securities by Municipalities Regulations, 2015, by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Currently the water resources department led by BJP
politician Girish Mahajan has approved Rs. 6,745 crore as against the original
cost of Rs. 2,986 crore for 11 irrigation projects and the cost escalation was
in usual and routine course and there was no corruption or irregularity in the
irrigation projects.