Initiating a probe into the legality or otherwise of studios in Malad, Marve, Erangal, Bhati village and Madh Island in Bombay, the Enforcement Directorate has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to share its report prepared by deputy municipal commissioner Harshad Kale on 49 studios there. The ED wants to examine the report under the provisions of the FEMA and the PMLA. The ED has also asked the BMC if it had filed any FIR against the illegal studios and sought copies of chargesheets in the cases.
The BMC had ordered an inquiry into the 49 allegedly unauthorised studios in September last year. Twenty-one studios had been put under the scanner. Reportedly, the BMC had issued permissions to those studios under its building proposal department circular on ease of doing business.