Five Thane civic staffers booked as key development proposal file goes missing

Five Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) employees person been booked aft a important improvement connection record went missing from the civic body's Town Planning department, a constabulary authoritative said connected Sunday (December 7, 2025).

The contented of the missing record surfaced for the archetypal clip 18 months agone aft a nonmigratory filed a Right to Information plea seeking certified copies of the documents linked to the proposal, the Naupada constabulary presumption authoritative said.

"After the RTI applicant filed a archetypal entreaty with Konkan seat of the State Information Commission (SIC), a probe began, during which the TMC said the record was untraceable. The TMC aboriginal filed an affidavit claiming the record went missing owed to negligence of inferior employees," helium said.

The persons booked connected the ailment of a TMC enforcement technologist see a grounds keeper and peon who died successful November 2022, different grounds keeper and peon arsenic good arsenic 2 clerks, the authoritative said.

"They person been charged nether Maharashtra Public Records Act 2005. The offence is believed to person taken spot betwixt January 27, 2022 and December 4 this year. A probe is connected and nary apprehension has been made successful the case," helium added.