CBI begins preliminary enquiry in alleged defence land scam at Kandivli in Mumbai

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) into the alleged irregularities in the sale of defence land to private company at Kandivli in Mumbai.

 

The PE was registered on Thursday, based on a report received from the Additional Director General (Discipline and Vigilance), Ministry of Defence.

 

The report had said that certain senior Army officers, while serving in the Southern Command, committed gross misconduct inasmuch as a plot of land, which was in the possession of Central Ordnance Depot (COD), Kandivli, Mumbai was relinquished unauthorizedly and later on it was sold by the Maharashtra government to a Mumbai-based builder.

 

The builder has constructed a 31-storeyed building of apartments on the plot, which is about an acre, overlooking the Ordnance Depot of the Army and thereby compromised the security of the Ordnance. 

 

The report also alleged serious complicity of some of then officials in the office of Collector, Mumbai.

 

According to sources, the plot was part of 13.28 acres of land that the Army had hired from the Maharashtra government in 1940 for a period of 99 years.

 

NNN

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