On Board Air India One: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday declined to comment on Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who has offered to resign after his role in the Adarsh Housing Society scam was exposed .
"I am not familiar with the facts of the case," the Prime Minister told journalists on his way home from Vietnam, at the end of a three-nation Asian tour.
He said he had seen newspaper reports about politicians, senior military officers and bureaucrats who had taken over flats in a housing society in Mumbai meant for war heroes.
"When I go back, I will look into the facts and make a meaningful comment," he said.
He added later that the issue was in the court and so sub-judice.
Chavan, whose mother-in-law is said to be one of those who got a flat in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society, on Saturday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here and offered to resign.
The flats were originally meant for families of soldiers killed in the 1999 Kargil conflict with Pakistan. Some of the military officers who got the houses have offered to surrender them.
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