Crime branch to probe Adarsh paper theft

Crime Branch of the Mumbai Police will probe the theft or destruction of important documents related to the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam from the Maharashtra Urban Development Department office, reports said on Sunday.

TV reports said the case has been handed over to the crime branch while the Mumbai Police are likely to question top bureaucrats on the scam.

According to earlier reports, documents from file noting dated August 30, 2009 and November 1, 2010 respectively, have gone missing.

The Urban Development Department has reportedly told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that page numbers 15, 97, 99 and 279 are missing from Noting Number 154/99.

A case has been registered at Marine Drive Police Station.

?We have already started investigation,? said a police official.

Sucked into the controversy over allotment of flats in the Adarsh Society meant for Kargil War heroes’ families to a clutch of bureaucrats and politicians in Mumbai, Ashok Chavan resigned as Maharashtra Chief Minister on Nov 9.

The 30-storey apartment, housing many top level defence officials, was built on a disputed army land at Colaba and the flats meant for the families of the Kargil martyrs were allotted to top defence officials and kins of politicians.