Following a high-level probe into the BMC sweeper scam on December 6, the Crime Branch Unit 3 arrested three more BMC employees on Saturday, this time from the G South Ward. The three have been identified as supervisor of sweepers Ramesh Rathod (50), Ganesh Jadhav (40), a clerk at the BMC head office in CST, Prasheed Waghmare (33), also a clerk.

On November 7, mid-day reported a long-running scam in the BMC where people faked identities to land jobs as BMC sweepers. Since the probe, the police has arrested 10 individuals from D Ward and learnt that the three recent arrests were of the men behind the recruitment of 18 BMC sweepers in G South.