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Chavan, others formally charged in Adarsh scam
Wednesday July 04, 2012 06:18:59 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Former
Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan was among 13 people,
including senior bureaucrats and defence officials, formally
charged by the CBI here Wednesday in the multi-crore Adarsh
Housing Society scam.
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet in the
scam case, that came to light in 2010, at a special CBI court
here. The 10,000-page document was filed before the registrar of
the special CBI court here 18 months after the investigative
agency registered a case.
After completion of the investigation, the CBI has filed the
charge sheet against 13 accused, a CBI official said.
Besides Chavan, the other officials named in the charge sheet are
are Maj. Gen. (retd) A.R. Kumar, Maj. Gen. (retd) T.K. Kaul, IAS
officers Pradeep Vyas and Subhash Lalla, former Congress
legislator Kanahiyalal Gidwani and retired defence estates officer
R.C. Thakur.
Brig.(retd) M.M. Wanchoo, former urban development deputy
secretary P.V. Deshmukh, Brig. (retd) T.K. Sinha, retired
information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari, former Mumbai civic
chief Jairaj Phathak and Col. (retd) R.K. Bakshi are the others
who have been charge sheeted.
The investigation with respect to "benami" (proxy) transactions
and any other new facts that may emerge during the probe will be
filed after completion of investigation in due course of time, the
official said.
Earlier Wednesday, the Bombay High Court heard a bunch of
petitions where the state government claimed that the Adarsh
society land belonged to it and not to the Ministry of Defence
(MoD) and that the CBI cannot probe the scam.
After hearing the arguments, a division bench of Justice S.A.
Bobde and Justice Mridula Bhatkar directed the Ministry of Defence
to file an affidavit within two weeks and adjourned the hearing on
the public interest litigations (PILs) till July 18.
The scam involves a prime plot in south Mumbai's Colaba on which a
31-storey building was constructed by the society, allegedly
illegally.
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