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Adarsh scam: Ex-Navy officer settled in NZ given domicile for flat
A retired Navy captain, who became a citizen of New Zealand in 2007, was issued a domicile certificate of Maharashtra in 2010.
Updated : Jul 14, 2012, 03:33 PM IST
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A retired Navy captain, who became a citizen of New Zealand in 2007, was issued a domicile certificate of Maharashtra in 2010 and alloted a flat in the scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society, the judicial panel probing the case has been told.
Captain (retd) Praveen Kumar while deposing before the two-member inquiry commission yesterday revealed that he had migrated to New Zealand in 2003 and became a citizen of that country four years later.
According to Kumar, he had sought membership to the Adarsh society in 2008. On December 8, 2008 he wrote a letter to the Mumbai Collector giving details of his income and address.
"In the letter, I had given my address as 20/B Sheetal Apartments, Ghatkopar. I had taken this room on rent. But in fact I sent the letter from New Zealand," Kumar said.
Asked by the commission counsel Dipan Merchant why he concealed the fact that he was a resident of New Zealand, Kumar passed the buck to the society's chief secretary and an accused R C Thakur.
"I did not mention my New Zealand address in the letter because Thakur told me I should maintain my address in Mumbai to make my case stronger. At no point I informed the collector that I had shifted to New Zealand," Kumar said.
According to the retired officer, the tehsildar's office issued him the domicile certificate in 2010 mentioning that he was the resident of Maharashtra, and in September 2010 the then Mumbai Collector approved his membership in Adarsh.
Kumar, who retired from the Indian Navy in 1996, further said that he did not mention about the fact that he was the citizen of New Zealand either in his application seeking membership or in the affidavit filed with the collector.
Kumar was allotted a 2-BHK flat in the highrise.
The two-member judicial panel which has already ruled that the land on which the 31-storey building stands belongs to the Maharashtra Government and is now probing whether bureaucrats had flouted rules while granting permissions and approving memberships to the society. PTI SP NSK BSM 07141518 NNNN
