BJP used Adarsh case to malign Congress, says Ashok Chavan
Chavan alleged that the issue was politically used by the BJP around 2014 to malign the image of the Congress.
After getting relief in Adarsh scam case former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan said the truth has ultimately prevailed. The Bombay High Court on Friday set aside the sanction granted to the CBI by Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao to prosecute senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan.
Addressing
a
press
conference
in
Mumbai,
ANI
quoted
Chavan
as
saying:
"The
truth
has
ultimately
prevailed,
we
always
had
full
faith
in
the
country's
judiciary."
Chavan
alleged
that
the
issue
was
politically
used
by
the
BJP
around
2014
to
malign
the
image
of
the
Congress.
Earlier, a division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Sadhana Jadhav ruled that though the CBI had claimed to be in possession of fresh evidence against Chavan at the time of seeking the sanction, it "failed to present any fresh evidence."
The bench was hearing a petition filed by Chavan, challenging the sanction granted by the governor in February 2016 to prosecute the former chief minister of Maharashtra under various sections of the IPC related to criminal conspiracy and cheating, besides provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Chavan had challenged Rao's order in the high court, calling it "arbitrary, illegal and unjust" and passed with "malafide intentions".
(With agency inputs)