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Summing up its 670-page report,the two-member Adarsh Commission said Adarsh meant ideal or role model,but the facts in evidence reflected greed,nepotism and favourtism on the part of some people who were,in some way,associated with Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society CHS.
The Commission was chaired by Justice retired J A Patil and had former state chief secretary P Subrahmanyam as its other member. Expressing disappointment,the Commission said,Adarsh is not a saga of ideal cooperation,but is a shameless tale of blatant violations of statutory provisions,rules and regulations. The case of Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society is neither ideal nor a role model,but has turned out to be a bad precedent.
The Commission said the Adarsh CHS case was a sad story of unscrupulous greed of some persons closely connected with the Society. It is found that some persons,dissatisfied with allotment of a single flat in the Society,tried and succeeded in securing flats for their near and dear ones. For this purpose,they went even to the extent of making benami transactions in violation of the provisions of the Benami Transactions Prohibition Act,1988, it said.
The Commission reflected on the meaning of the word Adarsh. Adarsh,it said,has its origins in Sanskrit and means a mirror Darshate Iti Adarsh,meaning that which shows or reflects. But this Adarsh Society has reflected images of many persons who are in or behind it. It reflects greed,nepotism and favourtism8230;
