Adarsh Scam: Ashok Chavan moves High Court for quashing case

MUMBAI: Nearly two months after he was charge-sheeted in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan on Monday moved the Bombay High Court seeking quashing of the cheating and corruption case registered against him by the CBI.

Chavan and 12 others were charge-sheeted by the CBI on July 4, with the Congress leader being accused of granting some approvals to the housing society in upscale Colaba as quid-pro-quo for allotment of three flats to his kin.

In his petition filed under section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the former chief minister has reiterated the stand taken by the Maharashtra government that the CBI does not have jurisdiction to probe the matter as neither the state government not the HC had handed over the case to the premier investigating agency.