The Azaad Maidan Police are yet to get the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations's sanction to file a supplementary chargesheet against BMC officials who were arrested in the CSMT Bridge collpase of March 14. Despite several reminders sent to civic officials the sanction has not been granted to the police, while the deadline for filing a chargesheet was May 30. On May 9, the police had filed the first chargesheet against Neeraj Desai (director of DD Desai firm) responsible for the audit of the bridge.

Since both accused, Sandeep Kakulte, 44, and Anil Patil, 53, were serving as civic officials in the engineering department at the time of their arrest, police need a sanction from the BMC before filing the chargesheet against them. If the sanction is not received, the court will not take cognizance of the chargesheet. As per CrPc 167 (2), if the police fail to file a chargesheet in the given time frame, the accused become eligible for a default bail. According to sources, the supplementary chargesheet is ready with just the BMC's sanction awaited.