'Govt didn't have any property card, city survey number for Adarsh plot'

Maharashtra government did not have any property card or city survey number regarding the plot where the controversial Adarsh Housing Society stands and one "Adarsh man" identified the land that was to be allotted to the society, city collector told a judicial panel here today.

"Before Adarsh was allotted the land in 2004, the state had never prepared a property card for the plot, which did not have a city survey number too," collector Chandrashekar Oak told a two member judicial commission.

Asked as to how the collector's office had identified the land to be allotted to the society in the absence of any maps or records, Oak said, "It is on record that an Adarsh man (member of the society) was at the site and he had identified the plot."

The collector, however, did not know the identity of this man.

Oak was being cross-examined by major SK Lamba of NGO Mumbai Citizen's Group.

The commissioner had permitted Lamba to examine Oak as he too had filed an affidavit before the panel.

Oak also revealed that the Society, when it applied for allotment of land, was aware that the Army was in possession of the land.