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The scam was unearthed by the Nandlal committee, constituted by the state government to go into alleged irregularities committed by the civic body, in which corporators had produced fake bills and receipts of sport goods, which were never purchased.
The corporators were produced before Judicial Magistrate First Class M R Purwar, who remanded them to five days' police custody.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Rajendra Singh said 28 women were among the 76 facing criminal charges under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The police also detained Devendra Phadanvis and Mohan Mate, both legislators, for interrogation since their statements were not recorded till date, Singh added.
Both were released later in the evening.
Phadnavis was first mayor after the BJP captured power in the civic body in 1997-98 and later became chairman of the mayor-in-council system, that was subsequently abolished.
Mate was chairman of the standing committee during Phadnavis' tenure and both subsequently got elected to the state assembly.
Deputy Mayor Bhoyar was acting mayor in the absence of city mayor Pushpa Ghode. Former BJP mayors Kalpana Pande and her successor Vasundhara Masurkar, also wanted in connection with the scam, were out of city, he said.
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