With the CBI filing its first charge sheet in the Adarsh scam, the Enforcement Directorate, which is separately investigating the case, would speed up its probe, sources in the anti-money laundering agency said.
Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, named an accused in the Adarsh housing society scam, today continued pointing fingers at his predecessor and Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for decisions taken while allotting land to the controversial housing society.
Former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh reappeared before the Adarsh probe commission on Wednesday. On Tuesday, he had blamed bureaucrats for two key decisions during his chief ministership, that of the allotment of land and granting additional floor space.
The Defence Ministry has been hit by a fresh land scam with an in-house inquiry finding that about 70 "adhoc NoCs" were issued to private realtors flouting norms for defence land which included the Srinagar air base.
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.
Union Rural Development Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said that it was up to the judicial panel probing into the Adarsh scam to give its verdict as all the concerned parties have filed their respective affidavits in the case.
Union minister for rural development and former Maharashtra chief minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, was on Thursday given an extension till June 17 to file affidavit by the judicial panel probing the Adarsh scam.