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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Adarsh panel to give interim report today-Shibu Thomas

Adarsh panel to give interim report today-Shibu Thomas

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published Published on Apr 13, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 13, 2012

The judicial commission on Adarsh will submit its interim report to the Maharasahtra government on Friday, more than a year after it was set up to probe how the building came up in Colaba. Justice (retired) J A Patil and member P Subrahmanyam on Thursday said the report would be given in a sealed envelope. 

With the report out of its way, the panel is all set to summon top politicians and bureaucrats, including former chief ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Ashok Chavan. Officers who will testify later this month include chief secretary Ratnakar Gaikwad and additional chief secretary Swadheen Kshatriya. On May 11, the panel will decide when to call the first batch of politicians, including Chavan, while Deshmukh and Shinde are scheduled to be informed about their appearance dates on May 23. 

The interim report, likely to be submitted to the chief secretary's office, will answer two of the 13 questions before the commission: Who was the owner of the land that was allotted to Adarsh Society in 2004? And, was the land meant for housing war heroes and Kargil war widows? The chief minister can then place the interim report before the state assembly. The state has spent around Rs 1.5 crore on the commission, including fees for its lawyers. 

The state government hopes that its ownership claim will be upheld by the commission. A finding in the state's favour will help the government-which is battling a series of allegations of illegal land allotments-giving it some ammunition to take on its detractors. According to the government, maps dating back to 1816 do not show the existence of Block VI in Colaba, where the Adarsh land is located. The land, the state said, was under water and was reclaimed in the 1970s. However, the state has not submitted any document of proof. Further, property documents pertaining to the land-including a property card and a city survey number, were prepared in 2004, after the plot was allotted to Adarsh. 

The defence ministry has said the land was in its possession since the 1940s. It has relied on a 1957 survey map that shows a sliver of land from Block VI to Dhobi Ghat, which it says is the location of the Adarsh land. The ministry's strongest evidence is in the form of the minutes of a 1989 meeting, where it is mentioned that the land was in the possession of the military. Adarsh Society itself in earlier letters to the state wrote that the land was in the army's possession "for the last 20 to 30 years". The ministry, however, does not have any documents to show that the land was in its possession. But it is an admitted fact before the commission that the army was maintaining a park there. 

"If the ministry had objected in 2004, when the land was being allotted to Adarsh, then the onus would have been on the state to prove that it was the owner of the land," senior advocate Dipan Merchant told the commission last month during his concluding arguments. "After seven years of not being in possession of the land, the onus now is on the ministry to prove that it was occupying the plot." 


The Times of India, 13 April, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Adarsh-panel-to-give-interim-report-today/articleshow/12642310.cms


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