Summary:
The other authorities were not consulted before the important land transfer agreement was signed. The junior MT official who signed the agreement sent a draft document via WhatsApp to his senior for perusal. Besides, the agreement does not mention the cost or measurement of the land and what the PMC would give the police department in exchange for taking the land. PUNE: A junior official with the state police’s motor vehicle transport (MT) department here signed an agreement to transfer the sizeable Aundh Bodygate police land to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) after receiving a mere thumbs-up sign on WhatsApp from a senior official in the department. We do not know whether the senior official read the draft but, within minutes, he replied to the junior with a thumbs-up sign..