What is Adarsh Scam

Adarsh Housing Society is a 31-storey apartment complex built in Mumbai's Colaba. The building should have originally housed war heroes and war widows of 1999 Kargil war. However, the occupants of the complex ended up being bureaucrats and relatives of politicians who were not at all connected with the Kargil war.

 

Adarsh scam unearthed

 

The issue had been in the news since 2003 but the probe began only in 2010, following which the Army and CBI launched separate probes. What, at first, appeared as a misuse of granted land, turned murkier as the revelations of the probe grew. It was found that