<p>CBI, which has conducting a preliminary enquiry into the Adarsh housing society scam, has sought for land records from the Maharashtra government to verify the claim of the Defence Ministry through a 1957 Survey of India plan, which shows that the land was in ownership of a local Military authority.<br /><br />"The Defence ministry has submitted a map claiming that it specifies the plot on which Adarsh was constructed belonged to them. To verify this claim, we have sought land records from the state government," a senior CBI official said today.<br /><br />"The state government has, meanwhile, been claiming that the land belongs to them and that the Army had encroached upon it," the official said.<br /><br />According to the Survey of India Plan of 1957, submitted by the Defence to the probe agency, the map of Colaba’s Navy Nagar, where the society is located, shows that a small portion of the plot was in the ownership of the local military authority prior to 1957.<br />The state government claims that the Defence Ministry did not get the plot registered in its own name, the CBI official claimed.<br /><br />Defence Minister A K Antony had announced a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in connection with the housing society, in which some senior army officials as well as former army chiefs Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij too had flats allotted in their name. Kapoor and Vij have since said they are surrendering the flats.<br /><br />The housing society, built on prime defence land, was constructed in alleged violation of various rules and regulations.The building was originally meant to be a six-storey structure but was later extended to 31 floors.</p>
<p>CBI, which has conducting a preliminary enquiry into the Adarsh housing society scam, has sought for land records from the Maharashtra government to verify the claim of the Defence Ministry through a 1957 Survey of India plan, which shows that the land was in ownership of a local Military authority.<br /><br />"The Defence ministry has submitted a map claiming that it specifies the plot on which Adarsh was constructed belonged to them. To verify this claim, we have sought land records from the state government," a senior CBI official said today.<br /><br />"The state government has, meanwhile, been claiming that the land belongs to them and that the Army had encroached upon it," the official said.<br /><br />According to the Survey of India Plan of 1957, submitted by the Defence to the probe agency, the map of Colaba’s Navy Nagar, where the society is located, shows that a small portion of the plot was in the ownership of the local military authority prior to 1957.<br />The state government claims that the Defence Ministry did not get the plot registered in its own name, the CBI official claimed.<br /><br />Defence Minister A K Antony had announced a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in connection with the housing society, in which some senior army officials as well as former army chiefs Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij too had flats allotted in their name. Kapoor and Vij have since said they are surrendering the flats.<br /><br />The housing society, built on prime defence land, was constructed in alleged violation of various rules and regulations.The building was originally meant to be a six-storey structure but was later extended to 31 floors.</p>