Mumbai: Hearing a private complaint in connection with the multi-crore rupee Adarsh Housing Society scam, a local magistrate has referred it to the special CBI court.
"It is necessary to merge this case with the case (before the special CBI court which is hearing the Adarsh case)," said magistrate R V Bhakta in an order passed on April 1.
Abdul Malik Chaudhary had moved the metropolitan magistrate's court in 2011 saying that a criminal case should be registered against 66 persons for the alleged irregularities in the construction of Adarsh Housing Society in south Mumbai and allotment of flats therein.
"When we approached the court in 2011, CBI had not registered a case," said Chaudhary's lawyer Ashish Giri. Giri had sought that the case be registered against 66 persons for alleged destruction of evidence, criminal breach of trust and cheating.
CBI had in July last year concluded the investigation in the Adarsh scam. Its FIR named 13 accused, including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan.
Chaudhary, the present applicant, has sought to make, among others, another former Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, NCP leader Jitendra Awhad, several other political leaders and bureaucrats accused in the case.
