After the Kamala Mills fire tragedy, civic chief Ajoy Mehta had ordered all ward officers to prepare lists of RTI activists regularly lodging complaints against illegal constructions in their respective areas. Eight months on, ward officers still haven't finished the task; ironically, the activists themselves have made a list of corrupt civic officials and sent it to Mehta and CM Devendra Fadnavis.

As per the statistics RTI activists received from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), 21 civic staffers were arrested in 2016 for taking bribes, while the number of those booked stood at 26 last year. This year, so far, the ACB has trapped 20-odd civic officials.