Adarsh scam: HC asks CBI Adarsh scam: HC asks CBI

A Division Bench of Justices Ranjana Desai and R G Ketkar,while hearing a bunch of petitions related to the scam,included another petition filed by Adarsh Society challenging the demolition order and activist Simpreet Singh’s petition seeking monitoring of the probe by the court.

Singh’s petition states that the CBI was pursuing only a ‘select few’,but ‘main players’ such as Deshmukh and Shinde have not been named in its FIR. “The CBI should make efforts to look into the involvement of everybody concerned,irrespective of who he is and what position he holds. CBI,before filing its progress report next week,should clear these allegations,” Justice Desai said. In defence of the CBI,Additional Solicitor-General Darius Khambatta,told court that the agency had already taken all documents and material regarding Deshmukh and Shinde,obtained by Simpreet Singh. “We are following it up. The agency is conducting the probe on a war-footing. We will submit a progress report by next Wednesday,” Khambatta said.

In another petition,former journalist Ketan Tirodkar submitted an affidavit alleging that Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is also involved in the scam. Tirodkar claimed that two Pune-based members of Adarsh Society had,in the verification form,given the same address as the one given by Pawar’s wife Sunetra,in an application before a civil court in Pune in 2009.

“Ajit Pawar’s wife,Sunetra,in an application before a civil court in a property dispute had given her residential address as Jijai,Yashwant Ghatgenagar Society,University Road,Pune. The same address has been given by two members of Adarsh society — Jayshree Bhosale and Nivruti Ganpati Bhosale — in an undertaking,” the affidavit reads.

The court directed the CBI to look into this aspect too,and clear the air.