Mumbai, November 17
The ongoing inquiry by multiple agencies into the Adarsh Co-Operative Housing Society scandal has revealed that senior bureaucrats and politicians in Maharashtra waived the domicile clause for senior defence officials to allow them to obtain flats in the controversial project. In return they themselves were allotted flats in the society.

Among those who aggressively pushed the case of senior defence officials like General Deepak Kapoor and General NC Vij was Maharashtra Chief Secretary J P Dange and former Mumbai Collector Idzes Kundan.

Her letters to top politicians recommending the names of the two generals for the flats at Adarsh was among the documents handed over to the CBI by Maharashtra Chief Secretary JP Dange yesterday, according to sources.

Under the laws in Maharashtra membership in housing societies built on revenue land must be granted only to persons domiciled in the state for at least 15 years.

In the case of defence officials they should have been serving in Maharashtra at the time of making their application.

However, neither of the two generals were serving in the state when their names were cleared for membership to the Adarsh Housing Society.

According to sources Kundan herself cited the domicile clause to reject the names of the two generals on the directions of her superiors.

Subsequently on orders of her superior J P Dange, then principal secretary, revenue and forests, Kundan reversed her decision. Kundan herself was allotted a flat in the society on the recommendations of the state's politicians.

Generals Kapoor and Vij have since announced that they would surrender their flats at the Adarsh Co-Operative Housing Society.

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