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CBI names
Ashok Chavan in Adarsh FIR, but not as accused
Saturday January 29, 2011 07:09:59 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: In an embarrassment to the ruling Democratic
Front government, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
Saturday named former chief minister Ashok Chavan besides 13
persons in its detailed FIR lodged in the Adarsh Co-operative
Housing Society scam, official sources said here.
The FIR makes a mention of Chavan, but he is not named as an
accused in the case.
Besides Chavan, the FIR also names another 13 persons, including
politician Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, former Mumbai collector Pradeep
Vyas, a former major general M.M. Wanchu and R.C. Thakur, in the
report filed before a Mumbai court Saturday afternoon, the sources
said.
When contacted, CBI Western Region Director Rishi Raj Singh
declined to officially comment on the issue of Chavan's name in
the report.
The development comes in the wake of the Bombay High Court seeking
to know what action the CBI had taken in the matter without
registering a FIR into the case.
At a hearing Jan 18, the high court had directed the investigating
agency to do file the FIR in the case within two weeks.
Nearly a month after the Adarsh scam broke out resulting in the
removal of ex-CM Chavan, the CBI had started a preliminary probe
into the case Nov 15.
Among other things, the society was accused of usurping a prime
plot of defence land meant to house heroes of Kargil war,
violating floor space index rules, throwing to the winds Coastal
Regulation Zone norms and flouting other regulations.
Following Chavan's exit, a former state human rights commission
member Subhash Lalla also quit for their involvement in the scam.
The state information commissioner, Ramanand Tiwari, was suspended
Jan 20 by the state government which initiated proceedings seeking
his removal from the constitutional post.
Besides, the state government is also looking into the role of
various other bureaucrats whose names have cropped up in the scam.
Similarly, the defence authorities have also initiated a parallel
probe into the role of its officers who were directly or
indirectly involved in the scam.
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