Amplifying its investigation into the COVID body bag scam, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has issued summons to Kishori Pednekar—the former mayor of Mumbai and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader—instructing her to appear before it on Monday.

Pednekar, along with certain senior officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), has been named in the FIR for purportedly procuring 1,200 body bags from Vedanta Innotech Pvt Ltd (VIPL) during the peak of the pandemic in April 2020, allegedly at inflated prices. VIPL has also been listed as an accused in the FIR and some of the company’s directors have already recorded their statements with the EOW.