Court asks report from CBI on complaint against Adarsh members

"The authority which is investigating the matter has to submit a report," said Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate D D Deshmukh in the order yesterday.

Abdul Malik Chaudhary, a social worker, filed the complaint in January 2011. "In the complaint, we said a case should also be registered against 66 others -- public servants and government officials -- who are the members of the society," said advocate Ashish Giri, Chaudhary's lawyer.

Chaudhary wants cases against them for criminal breach of trust, cheating, criminal trespass, forgery and criminal conspiracy.

On July 4 this year, CBI filed a 10,000-page charge sheet in Adarsh case against 13 people, including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and society's promoters, in the special CBI court here. The central agency had started the probe in November 2010 following a direction from the Ministry of Defence.

It is alleged that Adarsh building came up illegally on the land belonging to MoD. CBI also says that Chavan had a `benami' (in somebody else's name) flat in the Society, which got many concessions from the civic authorities.