Former Pune Municipal Corporation City Engineer Prashant Waghmare allegedly amassed ₹2,000 crore in assets over a 22-year career — roughly ₹91 crore per year, or about 10,000x his salary. When the Anti-Corruption Bureau tried to investigate in 2016, the PMC Commissioner personally blocked the probe in 2019. The Bombay High Court just unblocked it, seven years later.
Prashant Waghmare served as Chief City Engineer for Pune Municipal Corporation for over two decades, during which he apparently discovered that municipal engineering pays significantly better than anyone in HR realized. A 2016 complaint to the Anti-Corruption Bureau alleged he had accumulated ₹2,000 crore in disproportionate assets — routing funds through family members and associated companies involved in Pune construction projects. The ACB wanted to investigate. The PMC Commissioner said no, conducting a private hearing and exonerating Waghmare in April 2019 — a process the Bombay High Court has now called an overreach of authority. On April 5, 2026, the court quashed the Commissioner's protection order and directed the ACB to either open a formal inquiry or register an FIR. The court noted Waghmare's 'lack of cooperation' and failure to explain his properties, bank accounts, foreign travel, and investments. Seven years of institutional protection, undone by a bench that apparently found ₹2,000 crore worth of unexplained wealth suspicious enough to warrant a second look.