New Delhi: BJP Secretary Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday met Minister of State in PMO V Narayansamy to complain that the CBI probe into the Adarsh Housing scam is slow, contradictory and hit by hurdles and presented his set of demands in the case.
"Investigation and action in the Adarsh scam is not only slow but also contradictory. The role and actions of Government of India and Maharashtra government raise several questions. The CBI probe has been going on for 18 months," Somaiya said in his complaint.
"I have brought to the notice of the Minister in PMO V Narayanasamy the way the Centre and State (Maharashtra) government is trying to save Congress leaders in the Adarsh scam... We lodged a strong protest with him in not only dilly-dallying but the manner in which the Government of India, CBI and Enforcement Directorate is mishandling the Adarsh issue," he said.
He alleged that when CBI filed a chargesheet against former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, the state government said it does not want the CBI probe....
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01:19 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Mumbai: After chargesheeting 13 accused in Adarsh Housing Society scam, CBI is now shifting its focus on 'benami' owners of flats and the agency claimed the name of a senior politician had surfaced. Sources said an extensive probe has been conducted into the case and certain details have been shared with the Enforcement Directorate to ascertain the money trail into the benami transactions. CBI included Section 3 of Benami Transactions...
08:57 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Mumbai: CBI Joint Director Rishi Raj, who was handling Adarsh Housing scam, was on Thursday transferred from Anti-Corruption Branch to its Economic Offences Wing. A 1985-batch IPS officer from Kerala cadre was transferred a day after the CBI filed chargesheet in the Adarsh Housing scam in which former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan was among 13 named. The CBI said that the transfers were a routine matter and Rishi Raj...
08:30 PM, Jul 05, 2012
The CBI chargesheets former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan and 12 others in the Adarsh Housing scam. ...
11:45 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Ashok Chavan is all set to appear before the judicial panel probing the Adarsh Scam on Saturday, becoming the third former Maharashtra Chief Minister to do so. Chavan had on May 23 sought exemption to appear as a witness before the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing scam. He had been forced to resign in 2010 after the scam came to light. The CBI says it was Chavan...
09:30 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Mumbai: Adarsh members have approached the Defence Ministry and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking quashing of the FIR filed in the alleged multi-crore rupees scam in the housing society in the wake of a judicial probe of the Maharashtra government which had stated that the land belonged to the state and not defence. In a letter written to Defence Minister AK Antony, CBI Director AP Singh and other...
07:40 PM, Jun 09, 2012
Mumbai: After Ashok Chavan, former Maharashtra chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde have been summoned in the Adarsh scam case. The Adarsh Judicial Commission has directed Deshmukh to appear before it on June 21 and 22. Sushil Kumar Shinde has been told to appear on June 25 and 26. Chavan had on Tuesday sought exemption to appear as a witness before the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing...
01:28 PM, May 23, 2012
Mumbai: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday sought exemption to appear as a witness before the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing scam. Chavan, who had to step down as the Chief Minister in November 2010 following the scam, was summoned by the Commission to appear as a witness on May 23. However, he filed an application on Tuesday before the Commission seeking exemption. The two-member commission, headed...
07:10 AM, May 23, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Minister of State for Transport and senior NCP leader Gulabrao Deokar was on Sunday arrested for alleged involvement in a 1997 housing scam related to construction of 11,000 low-cost houses in Jalgaon, north Maharashtra. Deokar, who was a member of Jalgaon Municipal Council between 1995 and 2000, was summoned to the Zilla Peth police station at Jalgaon and arrested, police sources said. Additional SP Ishu Sindhu, who is...
05:33 PM, May 21, 2012
Jammu: Hundreds of Bharatiya Janata Party activists held a protest demonstration in Jammu on Saturday, demanding stern action against those found involved in the alleged multi-crore-rupee scam in the Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Housing Corporation. Holding party flags and placards with anti-government slogans, the protesters led by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) state president Munish Sharma demanded action against the erring ministers and officials. "Nobody should be spared, however highly...
06:23 PM, May 12, 2012
Jalgaon (Maha): Local Shiv Sena MLA and former Maharashtra minister Suresh Jain has been arrested in connection with 2006 Gharkul Housing Scheme scam. Jain, who was a Minister for Housing during the Shiv Sena-BJP rule in the 1990s, has been arrested for allegedly favouring a builder and indulging in irregularities to the tune of Rs 29 crore, poilce said on Sunday. He was arrested at around midnight at Dharangaon in...
07:59 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Mumbai: The CBI on Tuesday claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy of dilution of charges against the accused in the muti-crore Adarsh housing scam and arrested its own counsel and a former Congress MLC, who is already an accused in the housing case. The CBI stumbled upon the case with the arrest of an Income Tax lawyer J K Jagiasi who allegedly asked an Air India official, accused in one...
03:49 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Mumbai: A year after an inquiry commission was set up to probe the scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society, the Maharashtra Government has sought an interim report from the panel. The state government has filed an application before the two-member inquiry commission, seeking an interim report on two of the 13 issues being looked into by the judicial panel. The two issues include ownership of the land in south Mumbai, on which...
11:49 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Scam-tainted Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society of Mumbai was on Friday allowed by the Supreme Court to open a bank account in a nationalised bank for raising money for day-to-day functioning. A Bench comprising justices HL Dattu and CK Prasad gave conditional permission to the Society directing it to submit monthly statement of the accounts to CBI. The order was passed after the Society filed an affidavit stating that...
07:56 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee will begin examining from Monday the CAG report on the Adarsh housing society scam that had named two former Maharashtra Chief Ministers and top army officials for flouting norms. Officials from the Defence Ministry will brief the PAC, chaired by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, on the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society in Mumbai.the CAG, in its report tabled in Parliament on August 9, had...
05:29 PM, Oct 06, 2011
New Delhi: Sources on Sunday told CNN-IBN that Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde was being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team in the Adarsh Housing Society scam at his residence in New Delhi. Shinde was the chief minister of Maharashtra when files related to the Adarsh building located in upscale Colaba were processed and now the CBI is recording his statement as witness in the scam....
12:27 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Mumbai: Maps and some survey sheets from 1872-1960 related to Adarsh land and surrounding Colaba areas have gone missing from the land records office of the city, the fourth such instance of files related to the controversial society going missing. The two-member Commission, probing the housing society scam, was told by Sanjay Dikhle, Superintendent of City Survey and Land Records, that historical maps of 1847 (the first time when Mumbai...
02:58 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Mumbai: A special CBI court in Mumbai on Saturday rejected the bail applications of three officials of Maharashtra Urban Development Department who were arrested in connection with a missing file related to the Adarsh Housing Society scam. While refusing to grant bail to Desk Officer Gurudatt Wajpe, Assistant Town Planner NN Narvekar and Waman Rawool, the court said it was a major scam and not some minor case of robbery....
10:48 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Mumbai: Union minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has been summoned to appear as a witness before the two-member enquiry commission probing the Adarsh Housing Society scam. Union Power Minister Shinde was chief minister of Maharashtra when files related to the Adarsh building located in upscale Colaba were processed. Shinde, as chief minister, had accepted a proposal sent by Ashok Chavan, the then revenue minister between 2001-2003, recommending 40 per cent allotment...
05:55 PM, May 02, 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
