CBI moves HC seeking removal of Ashok Chavan's name from Adarsh scam FIR

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan

The CBI has approached the Bombay High Court against the lower court's refusal to end the criminal prosecution of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Housing Society scam.

The special CBI court, in January this year, had turned CBI's plea to drop Chavan's name from the First Information Report (FIR).

CBI had filed the application after Maharashtra Governor refused sanction to prosecute Chavan, on the ground that there was not much evidence against the Congress leader.

Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan.

CBI's revision petition is likely to be heard by the High Court tomorrow.

Chavan had stepped down as the Chief Minister after the scam came to light in 2010.

CBI, in the FIR, had accused Chavan of approving additional floor space index for Adarsh in return for two flats for his relatives. He was also charged with illegally approving, as the revenue minister, allotment of 40 per cent of the flats to civilians when the society was allegedly meant only for Kargil war widows and defence personnel.

Chavan, who had stepped down as Maharashtra Chief Minister in 2010 after his name cropped up in the Adarsh Housing scam, filed nomination papers from Nanded Lok Sabha constituency on Wednesday.