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Army attempts to clear confusion over Adarsh ownership

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is carrying out a preliminary enquiry, before making a case for investigation.

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In an attempt to remove confusion over the ownership of the controversial Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society, a presentation was made early last week at the army chief’s office by the Indian Army’s Pune-based southern command.

The army tried to prove the land belongs to the defence forces. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is carrying out a preliminary enquiry, before making a case for investigation.

Lieutenant General RK Swamy, chief of staff of southern command, was in Delhi for the presentation as the Mumbai-Gujarat area falls under the southern command.

The presentation had facts and figures drawn from defence estates records of 1958 and said the land was acquired in exchange for a plot in Mumbai’s Santacruz area.

The defence ministry had asked the army, navy and the directorate general defence estates (DGDE) about the security implications of having the 31-floor highrise building in the vicinity of the naval area and whether the land on which it stands is its property and how was it transferred to the building authorities.

DNA tried to contact the present DGDE, Ashok Harnal, but he refused to comment.

The army has also shown concern over how an ecological park of the mid-90s got converted into a residential building.

The army was in de facto possession of the plot since the early 1990s and had used it as a training location.

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