| Chavan among 13 charged in Adarsh housing scam |
MUMBAI Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan was among 13 people charged by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday in the multi-million Adarsh housing scam.
The 10,000-page CBI chargesheet was filed before the registrar of a sessions court, nearly 18 months after the agency registered a case. The Adarsh scam had fuelled a political storm in Maharashtra leading to the resignation of Chavan as the chief minister.
Earlier in the day, the CBI informed the Bombay High Court, hearing a batch of public interest litigations seeking the court’s supervision of the probe, that it would be filing a chargesheet later in the day.
The CBI had registered a case on January 29 last year against Chavan and others.
The agency had in March arrested nine out of the 14 accused after receiving a rap on its knuckles from the high court for not initiating action against the accused persons.
The nine arrested accused are - RC Thakur, secretary of Adarsh, retired brigadier MM Wanchoo, former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, both promoters of the society, former deputy secretary of urban development department PV Deshmukh, IAS officers Ramanand Tiwari and Jairaj Phatak, retired major-generals AR Kumar and TK Kaul and former city collector Pradeep Vyas.
Press Trust of India
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