An FIR has been registered against former deputy chief minister and public works department (PWD) minister Chhagan Bhujbal, and five senior executives of the department by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for not following the proper procedure while giving land for construction of a library in Kalina.

Bhujbal, who is from the NCP; Gajanan Sawant, the then sub-divisional engineer of the PWD; Harish Patil, then executive engineer; Anil Kumar Gaikwad, then superintendent engineer; and Sanjay Solanki and M H Shah, who were then secretaries with the department, have been booked by the ACB under 13(1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (whoever obtains pecuniary benefits using his position as a public servant).