Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Kaz­im Ho­sein on Wednes­day or­dered an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to sus­pect­ed build­ing ap­proval cor­rup­tion prac­tice at Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion af­ter re­ceiv­ing doc­u­ments from coun­cil­lor Van­dana Mo­hit.

Ho­sein spoke about the mat­ter in Tues­day's Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee de­lib­er­a­tions on the 2019 Bud­get.

In those pro­ceed­ings, UNC MP Gan­ga Singh had asked about the re­cent in­ci­dent where some­one shot at Mo­hit's home. She claimed the shoot­ing was a reprisal for her ques­tion­ing de­lays in the build­ing ap­proval process for cer­tain burgess­es in her elec­toral dis­trict.

Ho­sein said Mo­hit had writ­ten to him fol­low­ing the shoot­ing - which po­lice are cur­rent­ly prob­ing- and he was go­ing to re­spond to her "ac­cord­ing­ly."

Ho­sein met with Mo­hit on Wednes­day and she sub­mit­ted doc­u­ments al­lud­ing to al­leged im­prop­er prac­tices at the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion's build­ing de­part­ment, Min­istry of­fi­cials con­firmed.

The min­is­ter has hand­ed over all doc­u­ments to the Min­istry's Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary "for a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter, in the pres­ence of the As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice," the Min­istry said in a state­ment.

"Every al­le­ga­tion of cor­rup­tion is tak­en se­ri­ous­ly by the Min­istry and we are go­ing to en­sure that we re­solve this. Coun­cil­lor Mo­hit has come for­ward to bring at­ten­tion to this mat­ter and has not backed down de­spite her trau­mat­ic ex­pe­ri­ence, which is cur­rent­ly be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed by the TTPS."

"The Min­istry can ad­dress this mat­ter at an ad­min­is­tra­tive lev­el, and we will do the nec­es­sary to un­cov­er the truth of these al­le­ga­tions, for the ben­e­fit of the peo­ple of the Bor­ough, and all cit­i­zens."

Ch­agua­nas May­or Gopaul Boodan, sup­port­ing Mo­hit's al­le­ga­tions, said, "We're hap­py to hear of the Min­istry's probe. We moved a res­o­lu­tion last month to have an in­ves­ti­ga­tion done in­to the Build­ing In­spec­torate Di­vi­sion and any as­sis­tance the Min­istry needs from the cor­po­ra­tion in its in­ves­ti­ga­tion of the mat­ter will be made read­i­ly avail­able - we would like to get to the bot­tom of it as soon as pos­si­ble and as much as Ms Mo­hit does. She's a very dy­nam­ic coun­cil­lor."

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands se­cu­ri­ty is be­ing pro­vid­ed for Mo­hit.