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Adarsh scam: CBI searches Jairaj Phatak’s bungalow in Nigdi

According to CBI joint director (west zone), Rishi Raj Singh, Phatak owns four flats in Mumbai, has 22 bank accounts and Rs50 lakh in deposits.

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A five-member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out a pre-noon raid on Tuesday on the bungalow of former Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and former Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal commissioner, Jairaj Phatak, in the Nigdi
Pradhikaran area.

According to CBI joint director (west zone), Rishi Raj Singh, Phatak owns four flats in Mumbai, has 22 bank accounts and Rs50 lakh in deposits. In a telephonic interview on Tuesday, Singh told DNA from Mumbai that raids were carried out simultaneously on Phatak’s properties in Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and his native town of Yavatmal.

Singh said the raids had led to seizure of incriminating documents and materials pertaining to Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam.

Phatak has been indicted in the controversial Adarsh land scam case. According to the CBI, Phatak’s son, Kanishka, is one of the 103 members owing an apartment in Adarsh Housing Society in Mumbai’s upmarket Colaba area.

The CBI had alleged in its first information report (FIR) that Phatak, during his tenure as BMC chief, had approved the height of the Adarsh building to be increased from 97 metres to 107 metres on September 1, 2007.

Phatak, a 1978 Maharashtra cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Services (IAS), is presently working as chairman and managing director of the New Delhi-based Rural Electrification Corporation.

The CBI stated that Phatak was also in possession of three lockers in Mumbai, which were in the name of his wife and daughter-in-law. One locker was also in Delhi.

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