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This 31-storey building has been built in Mumbai's Colaba Navy Nagar area. But no one knows how army gave the permission to build a housing society on this land.

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IBN was the first to expose the Adarsh Society scam. Mumbai's posh Colaba area land (about 3800 square meters) with the complicity of military officers was given to a private housing societiy. But army took no action in this regard because several army officials, including former army Chief Deepak Kapoor himself, had flats in this society.
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The high-rise, built on 6,450 sq metres within the Colaba naval area, was cleared since it was supposed to house Kargil war veterans.

However, the houses in the society were allotted to senior army commanders, a former environment minister, legislators and bureaucrats.

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Among the allottees are: Former chief secretary D K Sankaran's son, Sanjoy and former Army chiefs Generals N C Vij and Deepak Kapoor, ex-Navy chief Admiral Madhavendra Singh, former Army Vice Chief Lt Gen Shantanu Chowdhary, former Union Minister and Shiv Sena MP Suresh Prabhu.

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The discrepancies in the allocation of flats in the Adarsh society has come has a huge embarrassment to the Congress party. The issue has escalated with opposition parties demanding the removal of the CM Ashok Chavan Two-member committee, comprising finance minister Pranab mukherjee and defence minister AK Antony.

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Another issue that remains to be addressed is the ownership of the land. It is yet to be clarified whether the defence or the state revenue department owns it Mumbai collector Chandrashekhar Oke, had submitted a preliminary report on the same.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has also been scrutinising how defence land was transferred to the Adarsh co-operative housing society and how the beneficiaries, including former services chiefs, politicians and bureaucrats, raised money to buy apartments meant for Kargil war heroes and their families. The agency, which had begun its probe into the row in early October, has sought documents relating to the society.
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The army has also begun its own probe into the issue. Major General Sanjeev Chopra has been entrusted with the inquiry. The Army High Command has ordered General Chopra to find out how did the defence personnel managed to buy flats worth Rs 8-10 crores, considering their salaries. some 40 officers are likely to be linked to the scam.
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