The 18-storey Harsiddhi heights is home to a number of bureaucrats and their relatives, including Ajay Nair, son-in-law of former Maharashtra chief secretary RM Premkumar.
The controversy surrounding Harsiddhi Heights at Worli for ‘violating CRZ and security rules’, seems to be a rerun of the Adarsh Housing scam.
The 18-storey Harsiddhi heights is home to a number of bureaucrats and their relatives, including Ajay Nair, son-in-law of former Maharashtra chief secretary RM Premkumar.
The list also includes state energy secretary Subrat Ratho’s wife Rachita, former joint municipal commissioner Satish Bhide as well as former state finance secretary OP Gehrotra’s relative Nikhil Gehrotra.
Adarsh whistleblower — former IPS officer and lawyer YP Singh — also has a flat in the building.
On Thursday, the high court stayed the sale of flats and induction of more occupants after hearing the navy’s petition that the builder did not obtain a no-objection certificate from Western Naval Command Authorities.
The bureaucrats have, however, denied favouring the builder. When asked if he has used his influence to help his son-in-law, former chief secretary RM Premkumar went ballistic: “How can you say that I, as a government officer, helped him out? I haven’t dealt with the builder.”
Energy secretary Subrat Ratho denied it was a grey deal. “The papers shown by the developer make it clear that all approvals have been received and the navy’s permission is not required.
“But the navy has gone to court and it is for them to establish if the builder has erred,” he said.
YP Singh had told DNA that the navy filed the case only to make him back off the Adarsh scam. “The navy wants to use these tactics to shut me up.”
He asked DNA, “What is illegal about buying flat in a society with my hard-earned money? Earlier too, when Khobragade was in-charge at BEST, power supply to Harsiddhi was cut off to put pressure, since he was a beneficiary at Adarsh.”
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