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Special CBI Judge P K Sharma ordered for defreezing the society's three bank accounts earlier this month, so that the applicant (the society) can use the money for maintenance of the building.
The order was given after a petition filed by Adarsh Housing Society had challenged the Environment Ministry's order to demolish the building.
"Why should any sanction be necessary? We would make a framework...where preliminary inquiry is done and there is a prima facie evidence, no sanction should be taken. We would change the law," Fadnavis told a news channel today.
The scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society sought the Bombay High Court to transfer its petition challenging the demolition order passed against it by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) to the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
The seven accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, including its chief promoter and former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, were today granted bail by a special court here.
In what may provide Opposition fresh ammunition to target the government, the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament is likely to take up the CAG report on Commonwealth Games this week.
The controversial Adarsh Housing Society was alloted the land in south Mumbai in 2003 upon the directions of the then Chief Minister and the Revenue Minister.
Coming down heavily on the CBI today, for its slow pace of probe into the missing files case of the scam-hit Adarsh Housing Society, the Bombay High Court has sought a reply from the investigating agency tomorrow.
Maps and some survey sheets pertaining to the Adarsh Housing Society that went missing from the state land records department have been traced, a judicial panel probing the scam was today informed.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today submitted progress report to the Bombay High Court on the probe of Adarsh Housing Society case, involving 14 accused, including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan.
Ashok Chavan, who was the Revenue Minister from 1999-2003 when land was allotted to the Adarsh Housing Society, on Monday said that the plot was sanctioned by then Chief Minister and he had no role to play in it.
After completing its Court of Inquiry into the Adarsh Housing Society scam, the Army has issued show cause notice to a serving Major General about his alleged role in allowing the private building to be constructed on defence land.
New Delhi, Feb 21 (PTI) BJP today said it has agreed to the government's proposal to have a JPC only on the 2G Spectrum allocation scam and would merely discuss the irregularities in the Commonwealth Games projects and Adarsh Housing society during the Budget session of Parliament.
BJP's demand for a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum scam along with those of Commonwealth Games projects and Adarsh Housing society are neither correct nor timely, CPI said today.
Almost a month after the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) passed an order to demolish the scam-hit Adarsh Housing Society, its members have approached the Bombay High Court challenging it.
The environment ministry on Sunday ordered the demolition of Adarsh Housing Society, an illegal Mumbai apartment block that has become a symbol of political corruption, as the country's government tries to tackle mounting graft allegations.
