Mumbai: A week after claiming that high ranking officials from the Ministry of Defence were targeting the Adarsh society as they were not granted membership, the society has now trained its gun on former Army Chief V K Singh, accusing him of being behind the "plot" to "settle scores with his predecessors".
According to the Adarsh society, Singh, who recently retired as Chief of Army Staff, initiated a plot to "tarnish and defame" the society and its members including several army officials and bureaucrats.
The allegations against Singh have been levelled by the society in its reply filed in the Bombay High Court on an application by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) seeking to intervene in a batch of PILs related to the scam.
The MoD had sought to intervene after the society and Maharashtra government objected to the ongoing CBI probe into the scam as neither the state not the high court had ordered such an inquiry, as required under the law....
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08:21 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Mumbai: The two-member inquiry commission probing the Adarsh Society scam will record the statements of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's relatives Seema Sharma and Madanlal Sharma on Wednesday. Chavan's sister-in-law Seema and father-in-law's brother Madanlal are members of the plush 31-storey Adarsh building in south Mumbai. Earlier on June 30, Chavan himself had deposed before the commission. The commission is likely to record Seema and Madanlal's statements on how...
02:40 AM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: Deposing before the Adarsh Commission, Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan has blamed the Principal Secretary (Revenue) for the controversy surrounding the housing project, saying he signed the letter of intent on good faith. "I was guided by Principal Secretary (Revenue) DK Shankaran regarding the conditional 'Letter of Intent'. I wasn't aware of the detailed conditions. I signed it in good faith. The details of the membership of...
01:20 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Mumbai: In the latest development in connection with the Adarsh housing society scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday submitted its report to the court. The ED told the court that it was awaiting the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report to ascertain if Money Laundering Act applies to charges the accused under it. The point was made by the ED after the court asked it as to "why Prevention...
02:36 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: Senior IAS officers Jairaj Phatak and Ramanand Tiwari, who were on Tuesday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), were remanded to police custody till April 12 on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the court also rejected the bail accused of seven others accused on Wednesday. Phatak, a senior IAS officer and Tiwari, Maharashtra's former information commissioner, were on Tuesday detained for questioning by the investigating agency. Phatak is among the...
04:58 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: Income-Tax department has initiated inquiry against 57 members of the Adarsh Housing Society, including relatives of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, regarding their source of funds through which flats were purchased in the scam-tainted building in south Mumbai. Stating that its investigations are complete, Income Tax informed the Bombay High Court that inquiry had been initiated in 57 cases and notices were issued to those persons. "Out of...
12:39 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Mumbai: In an embarrassment to Maharashtra's ruling Democratic Front government, former chief minister Ashok Chavan has been named as one of the 13 accused in the FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society scam, top sources in the CBI said in Mumbai on Sunday. Besides Chavan, the first information report (FIR) filed before a Mumbai court on Saturday afternoon also names 12...
02:13 PM, Jan 30, 2011
New Delhi: A day after filing its first FIR, Adarsh Housing Society promoters RC Thakur and Retired Brigadier MM Wangchu have been reported to be absconding. On Sunday, the Central Bureau of Investigation conducted raids in connection with the Adarsh Society scam. CBI conducted raids in seven cities across the country including Patna, Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai - at the residences of promoters MM Wangchu, Kanhaiyalal Gidwani and RC Thakur....
11:17 AM, Jan 30, 2011
Mumbai: After months of conducting a preliminary inquiry into the controversial Adarsh society scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation has finally registered an FIR against 13 people. Former chief minister of Maharashtra Ashok Chavhan's name has also been mentioned in the FIR. Among those named in the FIR are promoters of the Adarsh co-operative housing society, former and serving bureaucrats, retired army officials and politicians. Some of those named in...
07:59 AM, Jan 30, 2011
Mumbai: The civic authorities have resumed with their demolition drive in Mumbai post the Adarsh controversy. With courts and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) taking the civic authorities to task over violations like Adarsh, the Brihanmumbai Mahanagar Palika (BMC) is now in a damage control mode. Dramatic scenes were witnessed during the demolition of a residential area in Khar in Mumbai last week. The new BMC Commissioner Subodh...
09:22 PM, Jan 23, 2011
Mumbai: More heads are rolling in the Adarsh scam. Former IAS officer Subhash Lalla has finally resigned as a member of the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission following allegations of his direct involvement in the scam. Subhash Lalla's daughter and his mother have been direct beneficiaries of the Adarsh Society. But Lalla, in his resignation letter to the Maharashtra governor K Sankaranarayanan, says: "I was posted in Mantralaya for the...
10:57 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Mumbai: Former secretary to Maharashtra chief minister, Subhash Lalla, has resigned from his current post of state human rights commission chief following allegations of his involvement in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam. Lalla had earlier refused to quit when asked by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Lalla was secretary to the then chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde when the Adarsh files were being processed. Lalla and Maharashtra Chief Information Commissioner...
12:47 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Mumbai/New Delhi: The Maharshtra government is considering taking action against two former bureaucrats - Ramanand Tiwari and Subhash Lalla - for their alleged involvement in the Adarsh scam. Both of them remain defiant by not stepping down from the constitutional posts they currently hold. Sources close to Maharashtra chief minister say that Prithviraj chavan has asked the duo to step down following their alleged involvement in the Adarsh Society scam....
12:09 AM, Jan 03, 2011
Mumbai: CNN-IBN has learnt from sources that the Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan could press for the dismissal of Ramanand Tiwari and Subhash Lalla – the two bureaucrats named in the Adarsh Society scam This has come after the two officials refused to resign saying there was no evidence against them. Ramanand Tiwari and Subhash Lalla now hold constitutional positions after their retirement - Chief Information Commissioner and state Human...
07:51 PM, Jan 02, 2011
