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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering caseagainst the former Maharashtra Chief Minister, Ashok Chavan, andothers in connection with the Adarsh housing society scam. Drawing upon the Central Bureau of Investigation's FIR, the EDregistered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) on March 5under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. A copy of theECIR was shown to the Division Bench of Justices S.A. Bobade andMridula Bhatkar on Monday. "It appears that the aforesaid acts of criminal conspiracy,cheating, forgery for the purpose of cheating, using of forgeddocuments as genuine and abuse of official position by the saidpublic servants…resulted in obtaining for themselves and fortheir relatives, property rights over flats at a very low costcompared to the market value…The acts appear to prima facie constitute an offence under Section 3 of the PMLA," says theECIR. The agency is yet to ascertain "details of property initiallysuspected to be the proceeds of the crime." ED rapped The court came down heavily on the ED for its handling of the case.On an earlier occasion too, the court flayed the ED for inaction.In the absence of an FIR, the court told ED: "On the basis ofthe material [you have given so far] you should be able to make astatement as to when you will register an FIR and when you willarrest the accused persons." Senior counsel R.V. Desai, appearing for the ED, said the agencywould "take action" after the CBI completed itsinvestigation. "We are waiting for the CBI to finish itsprobe. After that we will act within four weeks," Mr. Desaitold The Hindu later. Meanwhile, the CBI told the court that it would complete itsinvestigation by June 15. The court asked both the investigating agencies to file a reply toan affidavit submitted by Pravin Wategaonkar seeking aninvestigation into the role of Union Ministers and formerMaharashtra Chief Ministers, Vilasrao Deshmukh and SushilkumarShinde. Admits plea In a concurrent development, another Division Bench of JusticesS.J. Vazifdar and A.R. Joshi admitted a petition filed by theDefence Ministry seeking demolition the Adarsh building. Until the petition is disposed of, the interim order againstgranting any permission to the society will be applicable. The nexthearing is slated for June 18. Along with Mr. Chavan, R.C. Thakur, former sub-divisional officer,Defence Estate Office; Brig. (retired) M.M. Wanchu; formerlegislator K.L. Gidwani; Maj. Gen. (retd.) A.R. Kumar; Brig.(retd.) Romesh Chandra Sharma; Maj. Gen. (retd.) T.K. Kaul; Brig.(retd.) Tara Kant Sinha; Brig. P.K. Rampal; P.V. Deshmukh, formerUDD deputy secretary in Urban Development Department; RamanandTiwari, former Principal Secretary, UDD; Subhash Lalla, formerPrincipal Secretary to the Chief Minister; and Pradeep Vyas, formerCollector; are the accused in ED's ECIR. Custody extended Meanwhile, a special CBI court on Monday extended till May 14 thejudicial custody of the nine accused arrested in the Adarsh case. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Custom Printed Cycling Jerseys , Personalized Handkerchief Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit Personalized Pillow Cases today!
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