The Mumbai Congress and its corporators, have demanded that the role of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Ajoy Mehta, and other civic officials that were directly or indirectly involved with losing a plot measuring 13,000 square metres in Jogeshwari, be investigated. The BMC has, however, said that a probe against the officials responsible in tampering with the file related to the plot has already been initiated. The BMC had tried to acquire the plot in Jogeshwari to set up a recreational ground but failed to do so in time, and subsequently lost the case in the Bombay High Court and also the land.

"This is a land scam worth Rs 500-crore under the nose of none other than the BMC commissioner, who is already involved in several other scams," Congress Mumbai Unit chief Sanjay Nirupam alleged. "A BMC worker associated with the case lost his life under mysterious circumstances last month, and we suspect he was killed. I demand that the Mumbai police book Mehta and immediately initiate criminal action against him," he said.