The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police recorded the statement of former Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar for close to two hours in connection with the body bag scam that caused a loss of around Rs 50 lakh to the BMC. The officials have asked to her to appear again on September 13 for further questioning. 

Pednekar and certain senior officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), have been named in the FIR for purportedly procuring 1,200 body bags from Vedanta Innotech Pvt Ltd (VIPL) during the pandemic in April 2020, allegedly at an inflated price.