CBI likely to file case in Adarsh Housing scam tomorrow

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: CBI is likely to file a case tomorrow in Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam and a team of its officials from Mumbai will go the agency headquarters in Delhi to apprise the higher-ups of its findings so far.

A CBI spokesman in Delhi said a letter from Defence Ministry asking the agency to conduct the probe has been received. CBI is in process of collection of relevant records and documents and that "no case has been registered as yet", he added.

CBI officials in Mumbai said a team would be going to Delhi head office tomorrow for discussion on Adarsh scam. "Only after discussion, further course of action will be decided," the officials said.

Official sources said a case was likely to be registered tomorrow when CBI Director Ashwini Kumar, who is at present out of country attending an Interpol Conference, returns.

Defence Minister A K Antony had announced on Tuesday that a CBI probe into the housing society scam, in which some senior army officials, including former army chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij, too had flats allotted in their names.

CBI, which had made an in-house investigations into the case following complaints since October, will apprise the officials at the headquarters about the findings from the documents received from several departments, the sources said.

CBI had sought documents relating to the Society from various departments of the government, Indian Navy and Army and the Society, the sources added.