The Bombay High Court Wednesday directed the CBI to look into allegations about involvement of Union ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushilkumar Shinde in the Adarsh scam without any bias,and submit a report by next week to show efforts are being made to probe all those linked to the scam,irrespective of who they are. Deshmukh and Shinde were chief ministers of Maharashtra when the files related to the Adarsh Society were processed by them. The court,while hearing a bunch of petitions related to the scam,included another petition filed by Adarsh Society challenging the demolition order,and activist Simpreet Singhs plea seeking monitoring of the probe by the court. Singhs petition states that the CBI was pursuing only a select few,but main players such as Deshmukh and Shinde have not been named in its FIR. The CBI should make efforts to look into involvement of everybody concerned,irrespective of who he is and what position he holds., the HC said. The CBI told court that it had already taken all documents and material regarding Deshmukh and Shinde obtained by Singh. In another petition,former journalist Ketan Tirodkar alleging that Deputy CM Ajit Pawar is also involved in the scam. He claimed that two Pune-based members of Adarsh had given the same address as the one given by Pawars wife Sunetra,in an application before a court in Pune in 2009. The court directed the CBI to look into this aspect too.
