Adarsh scam: CBI sends reminder to society's management

"A team of CBI officials visited the premises of the building and gave a letter at the society office, seeking various documents pertaining to the high-rise,"  a CBI official said.
"Details such as when the society was formed, how many members are there, who they are and mode of payment made by them to purchase the flats, documents related to various permissions granted by different government agencies to the high-rise, etc were among the various things we want to know," the official said.

"For this, we sought the documents that would answer all our queries," the official said adding it was a reminder in which they had asked the society to submit the documents at the earliest.

A controversy has erupted over how the Adarsh society in south Mumbai's upmarket Colaba, originally meant to be a six-storey structure for housing widows of Kargil war heroes and surviving veterans, was converted into a 31-storey building.

The high-rise is built on 6,450 sq metres within the Colaba naval area and was cleared on the condition of housing war veterans but now has 104 members, including former Army Chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and Gen N C Vij, former Navy Chief Admiral Madhavendra Singh and ex Union minister Suresh Prabhu.

The CBI has also written to the Union and the state Ministry of Environment and Forests, seeking details about the clearance given to construction of the building, the official said.
The departments have been asked to provide details like if they have issued a clearance for the construction of the building and if the area falls under Coastal Regulation Zone II, he said.