Mumbai: With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) not naming Union ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Vilasrao Deshmukh in its chargesheet in the Adarsh scam, a social activist on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking direction to the agency to file a report on its investigations against them.
"The investigating agency since last year has been telling the high court that it was looking into the role of the two union ministers. But in the chargesheet filed on July 4, CBI has not mentioned anything about the ministers' role in the scam," said the application by Pravin Wategaonkar seeking a report from the CBI on the roles of Shinde and Deshmukh.
Wategaonkar, who had earlier filed a PIL seeking a probe by the Enforcement Directorate into alleged money laundering by the Adarsh society members, mentioned his application before a division bench of justices S A Bobade and Mridula Bhatkar.
The bench kept the petition for hearing on August 3 along with the other PILs in the scam and asked the petitioner to serve a copy of his application to the Adarsh society and CBI....
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06:26 PM, Aug 01, 2012
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...
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: The CBI has questioned Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, named by Army Chief Gen VK Singh as the person who had allegedly offered him a bribe of Rs 14 crore, in connection with the Adarsh Society scam in Mumbai. CBI sources said he was quizzed on Wednesday about how he got a flat in the controversial society, the source of his funds and to check the veracity of documents....
07:07 PM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Sitaram Kunte, the newly-appointed Commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), on Wednesday informed the Adarsh judicial panel that the high-rise had not obtained Coastal Regulation Zone clearance. The Commissioner on Wednesday deposed before the two-member inquiry commission set up by Maharashtra government. He said Adarsh Society had received no CRZ clearance from Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). The clearance must be obtained before starting the work, he added....
09:18 PM, May 16, 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
New Delhi: A special CBI court will on Thursday hear the bail pleas of five of the nine arrested in the Adarsh Housing Society scam. The five include TK Kaul, a former senior Army officer and four former senior bureaucrats, Pradeep Vyas, Jairaj Phatak, Ramanand Tiwari and PV Deshmukh. The fresh bail pleas were moved after an interim report of the Adarsh judicial commission claimed Adarsh land belonged to the...
07:03 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: Observing that investigations had reached a crucial stage, a special court today rejected the bail plea of seven accused, including former Congress legislator KL Gidwani, in the multi-crore Adarsh housing society scam. Hearing their petition, judge MV Kulkarni maintained that investigations were at a crucial stage and hence he was not inclined to grant them bail at this juncture. Besides Gidwani, the other accused who had sought bail were...
01:34 AM, Apr 05, 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: The seven accused in the multi-crore Adarsh scam were on Tuesday remanded in judicial custody till April 17 by the Special CBI court. Special CBI prosecutor Ejaz Khan, seeking judicial custody for the accused, told the court that the investigation was in progress based on disclosure made by the accused while in police custody. The court then remanded the accused MLC KL Gidwani, Maharashtra government bureaucrat Pradeep Vyas, Major...
01:46 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: Three former government employees, including retired Defence Estates Officer, R C Thakur and Brigadier (retd) M M Wanchoo, arrested on Tuesday in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, were on Wednesday remanded to CBI custody till March 31. Thakur, Wanchoo and former Deputy Secretary in Maharashtra Urban Development Department P V Deshmukh were produced before special CBI judge M V Kulkarni on Wednesday. Their arrests followed a censure by the...
06:44 PM, Mar 21, 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: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by the controversial Adarsh Housing Society seeking de-freezing of its bank accounts. The CBI had in January frozen two bank accounts of the Society after registering a case against 14 accused including several members of the society. A division bench of justices Ranjana Desai and RV More was hearing a petition filed by the Society seeking de-freezing of its...
11:50 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Mumbai: IAS officer Jairaj Phatak reacting exclusively to CNN-IBN after the CBI conducted searches at his premises in connection with the Adarsh housing scam. Searches were carried out at seven of his properties in Pune, Mumbai, New Delhi and Yevatmal. Phatak, who is now CMD of the Rural Electrification Corporation figures in the FIR filed by the CBI on January 29. The FIR alleges that during his tenure as BMC...
07:31 AM, Mar 16, 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: The Adarsh society scam has now become a symbol for all that is wrong with the implementation of Coastal Regulatory Zone laws in Mumbai, and while activists have welcomed all the action on Adarsh-related corruption, they hope it won't end there. Environmentalist Debi Goenka said, "It is an example that should have been set years ago, because there are many such buildings, some of which are even worse, where...
09:39 AM, Jan 22, 2011
