Adarsh Kargil

• Adarsh scam: Maharashtra govt opposes handing over probe to CBI

  The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complete its inquiry into Mumbai's Adarsh Housing Society scam in two weeks. The CBI has also been asked to take a decision on filing an FIR in the case.But the Maharashtra government has opposed the handing over of the probe to the CBI. In an affidavit, the state g...

• Pune housing scam: Using 'Kargil' to grab land

  In an unnerving parallel to the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai another land scam surfaced from Pune involving high ranking Army officers, police personnel and civil servants.While reports claimed that the high profile crowd grabbed houses in the Pune housing society coming up in the name of Kargil war heroes, promoters of the residential scheme now ...

• Another Adarsh in the making in Pune?

  The list of housing scams in Maharashtra is just growing. This time in Pune. This four-acre piece of land in Lohegaon, earmarked for a defence personnel cooperative society was promoted as a residential scheme for Kargil war heroes. But when the society was proposed names of several bureaucrats and police officers figured in the list.&nbs...

• Court slams Maharashtra government on Adarsh

  The Bombay High Court has come down heavily on the Maharashtra government asking why no FIR was filed in the Adarsh scam and no action was taken against any government official?The court said there was clear-cut manipulation by the Collectorate, Revenue Ministry and Urban Development Department and the state government went out of its way to pleas...

• Adarsh Society to file reply in Bombay High Court today

  The Bombay High Court on Monday will hear a plea against the controversial Adarsh Housing Society on the environment violation.Adarsh has to reply to the Environment Ministry's show cause notice for "unambiguously" violating Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) laws.Adarsh wanted four weeks to reply but the ministry gave only seven days more for reply whi...

• Adarsh scam: Ashok Chavan speaks out, says money was paid to defame him

  Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has flayed his opponents for "masterminding" his ouster from the top post."Some people had given supari to defame me. I am innocent in the Adarsh scam and the inquiry would prove it. I thank Sonia Gandhi for giving me chance to be chief minister twice," he said addressing a rally in Nanded, Maha...

• Adarsh Society scam: CBI likely to question Ashok Chavan soon

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to question former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashokrao Chavan in connection with the Adarsh Housing Society scam, sources have said. It will also question all the 103 members of the Mumbai housing society Chavan's questioning is likely to happen next month, after a first information report is file...

• Adarsh scam: Kargil War hero let down by politicians

  One would probably be surprised to learn that there are apparently some residents in the Adarsh Housing Society who are genuine, bona fide Army veterans, who fought in Kargil."Trauma of Kargil operations were less than this controversy. Looking for a home of our choice has become more torturous," said Lt Col Rajeev Kumar Singh, a Kargil war veteran...

• Adarsh Society scam: How Maharashtra government cashed in on Kargil

  The land on which Mumbai's controversial Adarsh Housing Society came up may not officially have been allotted for Kargil heroes, but the fact remains that the Maharashtra government itself used references to Kargil heroes to lobby for clearances from the Centre. (Read: Where are the Kargil martyrs in the allottees? | Was this General the mastermind...

• Adarsh Society scam: Where are the Kargil martyrs in the allottees?

  Mumbai's Adarsh Housing Society may have become the catchment area for a massive political controversy, but Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan denied the complex was meant for Kargil martyr's families."The land was never reserved for defence personnel or Kargil heroes," Chavan said at a press conference on Friday, attempting to come clean on t...