India, Oct. 2 -- When 19-year-old Ayman Shaikh began filing Right to Information (RTI) applications as part of her college interest in public administration, she hardly expected her findings to reach the Bombay high court. But the Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) student from Ghatkopar claims her inquiries revealed inflated bills, ghost trucks and misuse of nearly Rs.90 lakh in a Mulund road project sanctioned in 2018.

On Tuesday, acting on her petition, a division bench of justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Sandesh Patil directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to constitute a two-member committee of an additional commissioner and the civic chief engineer to examine the allegations.

"Specific and serious allegations have ...