Maharashtra: CBI has written to the Maharashtra governor Vidyasagar Rao to prosecute former Congress Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing society scam.
Earlier in 2013, then Governor K Sankaranarayanan had denied permission to CBI to prosecute Ashok Chavan stating no prima facie case was made out against him.
According to CBI, Chavan approved additional floor space in Adarsh in exchange for flats for his relatives in Adarsh - a society meant for war veterans.
Chavan was among the 13 people chargesheeted by the CBI in the Adarsh scam in July 2012. Though other accused, including top IAS officers and office bearers of Adarsh Housing Society, a 30 storey high-rise in Colaba, were arrested, Chavan's prosecution requires permission from the Governor.
Chavan was forced to quit in November 2010 after it emerged that three of his relatives had been given apartments in the 30-storey building.
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