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Adarsh housing scam: Ex-chief returns flat

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Mumbai, Oct 31: Former Navy Chief Admiral Madhavendra Singh on Saturday, Oct 30 said that he has returned the flat which was allotted to him in Mumbai's Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society in Colaba.

"I have returned the flat which was allotted to me in the Adarsh Housing Cooperative Society. The moment I found that it was not meant for us, but was meant for war widows, I have returned it," Singh said.

Singh also added that “At no stage were we ever told that these flats belonged to war widows. In that case I would have withdrawn then and there. We are not fools to take anybody else's place."

Adarsh Housing Society in Colaba (Mumbai), was originally meant to be a six-storey structure to house Kargil war heroes and widows, got converted into a 31-storey and allotted to bureaucrats, top defence officers, a former environment minister and legislators.

It is also reported that Ashok Chavan's late mother-in-law, Bhagwati Manoharlal Sharma, was also one of the beneficiaries of a flat.

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Dinesh 31 Oct 2010 04:56 pm
This are the most Shameless Culprits, who cooked their bread on Sacrificed Jawan’s Cremations. Every illegal ones on this plot must be Court Martial. More shocking was to see some Shameless Congress Politicians on TV, justifying the loot from Kargil Shaheed Widows that Homeless Politicians and Officials has birth right to get the plot. CM Ashok Chavan's lame argument about land as an Govt Propriety does not give right to Politicians and Officials to loot Govt or Public resources by paying...
N Srinivasan 31 Oct 2010 12:52 pm
There is a vote platform with a question on adarsh scam. Ashok Chavan is he innocent ? What a JOKE played on the onindia browsin community !
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