Barred by the BMC for three years over shoddy road work in 2017, R K Madhani & Co still managed to bag multiple contracts worth Rs 185 crore from the MIDC in 2020. The whistleblower said that the firm had submitted an affidavit for the work in Navi Mumbai in 2019, claiming that the company was not blacklisted or banned or asked to deregister by any government or other competent authorities. mid-day has copies of the BMC order blacklisting the firm as well as the R K Madhani & Co’s affidavit.

The whistleblower, advocate Bhaskar Parab, claimed that R K Madhani & Co submitted a misleading undertaking to win the contract. The firm has refuted the allegations and said that they complied with all the norms and did not hide any facts. Following an inquiry into sub-standard road quality in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had, on March 22, 2017, issued a notice to R K Madhani & Co deregistering the firm for a period of three others. The civic body had taken similar actions against five other firms as well at that time.