No new findings in proxy flat probe in Adarsh society: CBI

The CBI has informed the Bombay High Court that further probe into alleged proxy flats in the scam-tainted Adarsh housing society has not revealed any fresh findings and its investigation into the case is over. The agency last week informed a division bench of Justices R V More and Sadhana Jadhav that it has submitted a report in a sealed cover to another bench of the HC...

The division bench, headed by Justices More, is hearing a petition filed by Congress leader Ashok Chavan challenging the governor's decision granting the CBI nod to prosecute him in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam. 

In October last, the HC had asked the CBI to conduct further probe into alleged `benami' (proxy) flats in the Adarsh building even as the Central agency said it has already completed its probe in the scam and submitted charge sheet two years ago. 
The order was passed on a PIL filed by activist Pravin Wategaonkar alleging that senior bureaucrats and politicians held benami flats in the south Mumbai high-rise, which was a quid-pro-quo for clearing files related to the housing society in violation of several norms.

Last week, Chavan's counsel Amit Desai, while claiming the CBI was only acting at the behest of the BJP-led government, told the division bench that it has been a year since the HC ordered the agency to carry out further probe in the case but till date no report in the form of supplementary charge sheet has been filed in the lower court.