The chief minister's blue-eyed bureaucrat Pravin Darade should now be able to skip eviction from a British-era civic bungalow that he resides in with his wife Pallavi, an Indian Revenue Service Officer, as he has been transferred to the civic headquarters in the rank his better half held till 2017.

Allotted house in 2014
Pallavi Darade, now serving as the commissioner of Food and Drugs Administration, was given the Malabar Hill residence in 2014 when she was made the additional commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Pravin Darade was appointed as the secretary to CM Devendra Fadnavis.