Adarsh Housing Society
The two adjacent Adrash flats have come under the scanner of the Adarsh judicial commission. The flats were financed by the Kolhapur-based builder Umesh Shinde. Vishwas Chougule, a retired teacher was allotted flat number 1904, while his former colleague Raghunath Bhosale was allotted a neighbouring flat in Adarsh. Shinde, who runs Raj Devendra Construction Ltd, [...] Continue Reading »
Retired lieutenant general Tejinder Singh,a member of the Adarsh housing society, has said the inquiry commission that the Adarsh building was not a security threat to any army installations. He said he did not paid any attention to the security concerns of the defence department as he felt the building did not pose any threat [...] Continue Reading »
The Ministry of Defence alleged that the state government was trying to scuttle the probe into the Adarsh society scam,it questioned the CBI’s finding that the controversial land belongs to the state government. Major general Deepak Saxena, chief ofstaff for Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa areas of the Indian Army, filed an application on behalf of [...] Continue Reading »
CBI is presently concentrating on ‘benami‘ owners of flats and it claimed that a senior politician had involved in those transactions. According to sources, an intense investigation has been carried on by CBI with regard to the case and certain details have been shared with the Enforcement Directorate to check the money trace into the [...] Continue Reading »
The former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ashok Chavan, on Saturday passed the blame to Union Science and Technology Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, for granting permission to the Adarsh housing society. Mr. Chavan said that Mr. Deshmukh, the then Chief Minister, had allotted the government land, regardless of the land valuation. He also blamed Finance Department suspecting [...] Continue Reading »
Even as the saga over the Adarsh Housing society scam is still unfolding, the defence ministry on Thursday decided to computerise records of 1.7 million acre of defence land across the country. Defence Minister A K Anthony said that to avoid Adarsh-like scandals, in which defence land is believed to be transferred for the construction [...] Continue Reading »
After the Environment Ministry Jairam Ramesh recommended the demolition of the Adarsh Housing Society building in Mumbai for violating coastal regulations, Defence Ministry today said it would take a “balanced view” on the issue before arriving at any decision. He was responding to queries about the future of the building in view of the Environment [...] Continue Reading »
