The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials on Friday refused to comment on the investigation of the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam. The CBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into the ownership of the plot of land in question after the Defence Ministry made a request.
On Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party filed a complaint against the involved officials and politicians in the Adarsh case. Abhin Modak, Superintendent of Police, CBI, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), said that a temporary complaint number had been issued to them. “We will go according to the procedure. The probe is on,” he said.
He refused to comment on the ownership issue of the plot of land in question.
He was talking on the sidelines of a press conference organised to announce that a charge sheet was filed against a former Chief Post Master General of Maharashtra and Goa and two others for allegedly accepting a bribe to the tune of Rs. 2 crore.
Major crackdown
“We filed the charge sheet yesterday [Thursday]. This is one of the biggest crackdown on a government of India official,” Mr. Modak said.
Manjit Singh Bali, a 1977 batch senior Indian Postal Service officer, was caught along with a father-son duo middlemen Arun Dalmia and Harsh Dalmia in February this year while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs. 2 crore.
They had allegedly demanded the bribe for issuing a No Objection Certificate for the development of a plot reserved for the Postal Department on Mira Road.
