[ecis2016.org] The Bombay High Court has dismissed a plea from the scam-tainted Adarsh housing society in south Mumbai, seeking to defreeze two of its bank accounts containing Rs 1.47 crores, which the society said was intended to bear legal expenses and day-to-day expenditure of the society
The Bombay High Court, on June 7, 2017, dismissed a petition filed by the scam-tainted Adarsh housing society, seeking to defreeze two of its bank accounts, while observing that the money in the account could be part of ‘benami’ transactions. The society had approached the high court, after its plea for defreezing of the bank accounts was turned down by a special CBI court in September 2015.
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The CBI had, in January 2011, frozen the two bank accounts of the society, after registering a case against 14 accused, including several members of the society. According to the society, the amount – totalling Rs 1.47 crores – lying in the two accounts had nothing to do with the purported scam. The society claimed that the two bank accounts were opened with the State Bank of India’s Cuffe Parade and Wodehouse Road branches, to bear legal expenses and day-to-day expenditure of the society.
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CBI counsel Hiten Venegaonkar opposed the petition and said the amount could be part of benami transactions and hence, be proceeds of crime. Justice Anil Menon accepted the CBI’s contention. “There is no merit in the petition. The society has been allowed by the Supreme Court in the past, to open a fresh account,” Menon said, while dismissing the petition.
The plush 31-storey building at Colaba in south Mumbai, has been embroiled in a controversy since 2011, with the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest ordering its demolition for violating environmental norms and the Defence Ministry claiming ownership of the land where it is constructed.
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