The CBI has claimed to have found evidence of alleged forgery and manipulation of documents on part of some army officials and bureaucrats in the Adarsh society scam. Sources in the CBI said that some of the documents seized by the investigating agency were indicative of some forgery having allegedly been committed by a few defence officials in criminal conspiracy with bureaucrats of Maharashtra government and private individuals. Sources said that a decision on registering the case under provisions of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act will be taken once a clearance came from the legal department of the CBI.

Defence Minister A K Antony had sought a CBI probe into the scam relating to Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in which some senior military officers, including former army chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and Gen N C Vij and ex-naval chief Admiral Madhavendra Singh, had flats allotted in their names. The three ex-chiefs have since said they were surrendering their flats.

The CBI had on 15 th of November registered a preliminary enquiry which is independent of an Army court of inquiry ordered on December 11.