India, June 2 -- A total of 5,334 cases involving the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) are pending before various courts, with the civic body spending nearly Rs.3 crore on advocate fees to pursue them.

The information was provided by the PMC's legal department to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) corporator Datta Bahirat in response to a query raised last week.

Bahirat said he had sought details of pending cases and legal expenditure over the past 10 years. "However, the PMC administration furnished data only for the 2025-26 financial year," he said.

Questioning the expenditure on external legal counsel, Bahirat said, "The legal department already has its own staff. Why is the civic body spending Rs.3 crore on private advocates? These c...