Adarsh case: Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar files intervention petition

Former Maharashtra chief minister Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar on Monday filed an intervention application before the special CBI court which is hearing a private petition seeking to make him an accused in the Adarsh housing society scam case.

In the application, Patil Nilangekar has pleaded with the court to be allowed to contest the allegation which have been made against him in the petition by activist Pravin Wategaonkar.

"The interests of Patil Nilangekar would be prejudiced if the court takes cognizance of Wategaonkar's complaint against him in the Adarsh society scam," said the advocate representing the former chief minister.

However, the application was opposed by Wategaonkar on the grounds that Patil Nilangekar did not have the right to take part in the proceedings at this stage of the matter and that the court could not allow him to do so.

Wategaonkar also submitted some judgments of the Supreme Court to support his contention.

The matter will come up for orders on Wednesday.

The CBI, which is probing the Adarsh case, had in February given a clean chit to Patil Nilangekar, saying that it had looked into the role of the former chief minister but found no material or evidence to suggest any criminal misconduct on his part.

Nilangekar, as revenue minister, had handled the Adarsh society file in 2004 and the questions were raised as his son-in-law was allotted a flat in the building.