A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday directed R C Thakur,an accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam and one of the chief promoters of the society,to approach the special CBI court with his plea to defreeze bank accounts. Justice A M Khanwilkar,who was hearing the case,said,Since the attachment of the bank accounts has been done by the special CBI court,the petitioner (Thakur) would be well advised to approach the court regarding the issue. The petition had been filed by R C Thakur,his son Navin and Navins wife Aarti seeking defreezing of their six bank accounts. Arguing for the petitioners,lawyers Girish Kulkarni and Saket Mone told the court that the accounts,which have been attached by the CBI,were completely unconnected with the scam in which the investigations are currently going on. While the accounts were created only last year,the flat in the Adarsh Society was allotted to Thakur in 2003. Therefore,there is no connection between the two, Mone said. Thakur is named in the FIR filed by the CBI in the case. The FIR states that he conspired with the members of defence services,officials and functionaries of the government of Maharashtra and others with the intention of illegally getting the land allotted in favour of Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society.
