Mumbai: The Congress Vice-President, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday had disapproved of the Maharashtra government’s decision to reject a judicial commission’s report on the Adarsh scam.

The Gandhi scion, at a press conference, said, ‘‘Personally, I don’t agree with that decision. They (Maharashtra) should reconsider that.’’

The Congress government in Maharashtra had rejected the report of the two-member commission headed by retired high court judge JA Patil. The report of the judicial commission of inquiry on the Adarsh scam that was tabled in the legislative assembly had accused several politicians including three former chief ministers for glaring and obvious violations of statutory provisions.

The report had come down heavily on those in authority described the scam as characterized by greed and nepotism where everyone involved including leaders, army personnel and those in administration had left no stone unturned in grabbing flats for themselves.

Daily Bhaskar brings forth as to who were involved in the scam that set a bad precedent, which reflected the avarice and rapacity of those involved.

Eye surgeon and son-in-law of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (June 1985 -March 1986) and State Revenue Minister (2003-2004) Shivajirao Nilangekar Patil, Dr Arun Davle, had declared his monthly income as Rs 10, 000. He was allotted a flat in the Adarsh society. Shivajirao had made a payment of Rs 55 lakhs for the flat. An amount of Rs 5.50 lakhs was lent to him by the Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. The Congress government in Maharashtra led by Prithviraj Chavan had rejected the report on the Adarsh scam in which three former Congress chief ministers faced allegations of irregularities.

Meanwhile, in an interview to Bhaskar news, JA Patil, who had led the commission in preparing a report on the Adarsh scam said that it is still unclear as to the Congress government in Maharashtra had rejected the final report though it had accepted the interim report on the issue.

The report that consists of 800 pages was prepared after taking statements of more than 200 people.

The revelation of the scam by RTI activist, Anand Joshi, through a document that consists of 300 pages, even doubted the report submitted by the commission headed by retired justice JA Patil citing the reason that Justice Patil had been the law secretary of the Maharashtra government and hence an impartial report could not have been expected of him.

The report that talks in detail about how the Adarsh scam took place reveals that the three former Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Narayan Rane, not only gave clearances to the controversial building but also had benefitted from the allotments. Apart from the politicians, three former Service Chiefs, Admiral Madhavendra Singh, former Generals Deepak Kapoor and Nirmal Chander Vij, 12 IAS officers, and many army officers were involved in providing false details to grab the flats.

Denying all charges of influencing for favouring friends or relatives, General Deepak Kapoor had written to the Adarsh Society that he would like his membership of the society terminated.

Advocate YP Singh who had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court with regard to the Adarsh scam has said that the decision taken by the Maharashtra state government would have no effect on his PIL and the government is answerable as to why it rejected the final report submitted by the commission studying the Adarsh Housing Society scam.