The order was passed by a bench headed by Justice B H Marlapalle, which directed the CBI to submit a progress report within three weeks.
Pakistan rode on Azan Awais' classy unbeaten century to beat arch-rivals India by eight wickets in the ongoing U-19 Asia Cup in Dubai on Sunday.
In a breather for the Adarsh Housing Society, the Bombay high court on Wednesday said that before passing any "drastic" order -- such as giving a nod for demolition -- it would first hear the society and the environment ministry.
The Bombay High Court asked the controversial Adarsh Housing Society to submit a list of its original members, as well as that of existing members.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to question former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in connection with his alleged role in the housing society scam in Mumbai. The official said Chavan may be quizzed 'in connection with a letter he had cleared and signed recommending the inclusion of civilians in the society' which was originally meant for widows of Kargil war heroes and war veterans.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan was among the 13 people figuring as accused in the FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday in connection with the Adarsh housing society scam which also names some retired senior Army officials.
Musheer Khan smashed his second century of the ICC Under-19 World Cup as India thrashed New Zealand by 214 runs.
In the wake of the Adarsh housing scam, the Navy has found that a "huge number" of its plots were encroached upon, a top Navy official said on Wednesday.
The case pertaining to the theft of key documents in Adarsh Housing Society scam was transferred to the Mumbai Crime Branch on Sunday due to seriousness of the issue.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G spectrum scam along with those of Commonwealth Games projects and Adarsh Housing society are neither correct nor timely, Communist Party of India said on Saturday.
The finance minister along with his cabinet colleague and Defence Minister A K Antony have been asked by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to submit a report on the scam.
The Army said on Wednesday that it is carrying out an inquiry into Mumbai's Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society row in which a high-rise building has been constructed in alleged violation of rules with beneficiaries being former services chiefs, politicians and bureaucrats.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday rejected the bail pleas of six accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, including former Maharashtra bureaucrats Jairaj Pathak and Ramanand Tiwari. The court refused to grant them liberty, accepting CBI's argument that the investigation was still in progress.
The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the counsel of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan if the petition filed by Chavan seeking quashing of a First Information Report lodged by the centralBureau of Investigation in the Adarsh Housing Society scam can be heard now, since the charge sheet has been already filed in the case.
Nearly two months after he was chargesheeted 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 Central Bureau of Investigation.
The BJP has again fielded Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar who humbled Ashok Chavan in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls by over 40,000 votes.
Seeking to wash his hands off the Adarsh scam, Union Minister of Power Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday told a judicial panel the decision to allot government land and grant of additional Floor Space Index to the housing society was taken during the tenure of Vilasrao Deshmukh as the chief minister of Maharashtra.
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Commentators swiftly reminded viewers of the heated final between the two teams in the 2020 U-19 World Cup, emphasising the ill-tempered nature of the match
The two-member panel, which had submitted its interim report to the government last Friday, has also held that the building was not reserved for war heroes and Kargil widows.
In fresh trouble for members of the scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society, which is already under a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate has issued notices to the Society and its members, asking them to furnish information regarding payment towards the purchase of flats. The ED began its probe into allegations of money laundering and benami transactions after facing severe criticism from the Bombay high court.
With the Central Bureau of Investigation filing its first chargesheet 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.
In an apparent reference to Mumbai's Adarsh housing society scam, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said the case should be disposed of speedily and the guilty should be brought to justice.
Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday appeared to be laying the blame for the Adarsh scam at former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's door when he told the judicial panel probing it that the land was allotted to the society after a go-ahead from the revenue department.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday declared that he did not agree with the decision of the Congress government in Maharashtra to reject a judicial commission's report on the Adarsh scam and said it should be reconsidered.
After being rapped for 'sloppy investigations' in the Adarsh society scam case, the Central Bureau of Investigation finally seems to have got its act together. After several high profile arrests, the CBI joint director has now informed that the "Bombay high court is satisfied with the investigations so far."
Former civic chief Jairaj Phatak and ex-state information commissioner Ramanand Tiwari, arrested in the Adarsh society scam, were on Thursday granted bail by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Mumbai as the agency failed to file the charge-sheet within the stipulated 60-day period. The duo, which had been in custody since their arrest on April 3, had filed their bail applications on Monday.
A division bench of the Bombay high court on Tuesday recused itself from hearing a bunch of public interest litigations in the Adarsh scam case and also the application of former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan who has sought quashing of the corruption case against him.
A university in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh has set up a probe panel following complaints of some students that a professor was propagating Islam and harassing Hindu students, a senior varsity official said on Monday.
Many government departments, including Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, Revenue and Forest, Brihanmumbai Municipal Commission, Home, Environment Ministry, Public Works Department and Uran Land department, were issued summons directing them to produce before the commission, all documents pertaining to the scam-hit Adarsh Society on Monday. However, except BMC, all the departments sought one week's time to submit all the files along with an index.
Army Chief Gen V K Singh on Monday said the land in south Mumbai on which the scam-tainted Adarsh cooperative housing society stands belonged to the Army.
Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday said it would support Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan if he was planning to reconsider his decision to reject the report of the commission which probed Adarsh Society scam.
Holding that the Adarsh Housing scam was a classic case of fence eating the crops and 'consistent failure' of Centre and Maharashtra government, the Comptroller and Auditor General on Tuesday said rules were bent to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and senior service officers including former Army chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij.
Maharashtra former chief minister Ashok Chavan, charge-sheeted in the Adarsh scam, on Wednesday looked set to be let off the hook, with the Central Bureau of Investigation moving a special court seeking approval to drop his name as an accused in the case following governor's refusal to sanction his prosecution.
Rahul Gandhi claimed a leader from Maharashtra cried in front of his mother Sonia Gandhi, saying he felt ashamed that he could not "fight this power any more and didn't want to go to jail".
A Parliamentary panel on Monday rapped the defence ministry and the Maharashtra government on the Adarsh Housing Society scam, saying there was "monumental failure" at all levels of governance with certain officials abusing their position.
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Noting that land scams such as Sukna and Adarsh Society have projected armed forces in a "bad" light, Defence Minister A K Antony said on Wednesday that policies would be framed to bar local military authorities from directly issuing 'no objection certificates' to private realtors.
The CBI has questioned Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, named by Army Chief Gen V K Singh as the person who had allegedly offered him a bribe of Rs 14 crore, in connection with the Adarsh Society scam.
In a condolence message sent to the families of the victims of the fire incident in Mangaf, the Emir expressed his sincere sorrow and deep sympathy to the families of the victims and wished a fast recovery to the injured.
