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Ashok
Chavan named as accused in Adarsh scam
Sunday January 30, 2011 02:21:38 PM,
IANS
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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 here Sunday.
Besides Chavan, the first information report (FIR) filed before a
Mumbai court Saturday afternoon also names 12 people, including
politician Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, former Mumbai collector Pradeep
Vyas, a former major general M.M. Wanchu and R.C. Thakur, sources
said.
When contacted on the issue Sunday, the CBI's Western Region
Director Rishi Raj Singh declined to officially comment on the
issue of Chavan being named as an accused.
Chavan, who was asked to step down Nov 9 last year and replaced by
Prithviraj Chavan, has vehemently denied of any wrongdoing in the
Adarsh scam. He has said on several occasions that he was a victim
of political vendetta.
Chavan had also expressed readiness to face any inquiry regarding
his role in the case.
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 in the case.
At a hearing Jan 18, the high court had directed the investigating
agency to file the FIR within two weeks.
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, flouting Coastal Regulation
Zone norms and other rules.
Following Chavan's exit, a former state human rights commission
member Subhash Lalla also quit after being named 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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