No evidence to implicate Shinde in Adarsh scam: CBI tells HC

Though two other former Chief Ministers--Shinde and Vilasrao Deshmukh-- were also under its scanner for according various clearances to the housing society, they were not made accused in the case in which top retired army officers and public servants faced charges.

Shinde was the chief minister of Maharashtra between 2001 and 2003 when he cleared several files relating to allotment of land to the Adarsh society.

The scam pertains to alleged irregularities in construction and allotment of apartments in the building said to be originally meant for families of Kargil war heroes and their widows.

In his deposition before the judicial commission constituted by the state government to go into the alleged scam, Shinde had in June last year said the society was not reserved for war heroes and Kargil widows.