INDIA'S NODAL PROBE AGENCY RAIDS LEGISLATOR'S HOUSE IN HOUSING SCAM

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India's nodal probe agency raids legislator's house in housing scam.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's nodal probe agency, raids the house of former Congress legislator Kanhaiyalal Gidwani in Mumbai city in connection with the 'Adarsh Housing Scam'.

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MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (JANUARY 30, 2011) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)

1. EXTERIOR VIEW OF BUILDING

2. 'BHIMA' WRITTEN ON THE BUILDING

3. CAR ARRIVES AT THE COMPLEX

4. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (CBI), INDIA'S NODAL PROBE AGENCY OFFICIAL COMING OUT OF THE CAR

5. CBI OFFICIALS GOING INSIDE THE BUILDING

6. CBI OFFICIALS SPEAKING ON PHONE

7. CBI OFFICIALS AFTER THE RAID GETTING BACK INSIDE THE CAR

8. CAR LEAVING

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CBI OFFICIAL, SAYING: "(Q. Has any incriminating evidence been found?)

We still have to scrutinize.

(Q. Have you seen the laptops, any documents as such?)

Some, certain documents we seized.

(Q. At what time did you come in here?)

Morning seven."

10. CBI CAR LEAVES

11. (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) KANHAIYALAL GIDWANI, FORMER CONGRESS LEGISLATOR, SAYING: "Adarsh Society case has come up due to a high court petition, and since the matter is sub-judiced, so I cannot comment much. But whatever CBI questioned, I answered all of them correctly. I cooperated well and will continue to do so."

12. BUILDING

STORY: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's nodal probe agency, raided former Congress legislator Kanhaiyalal Gidwani's Mumbai residence on Sunday (January 30), in connection with the 'Adarsh Housing Scam'.

The officials arrived at seven in the morning in Gidwani's residence and conducted the raid.

A CBI official while leaving told mediapersons that they did get incriminating evidence against Gidwani however further investigation will be conducted.

"(Q. Has any incriminating evidence been found?)

We still have to scrutinize.

(Q. Have you seen the laptops, any documents as such?)

Some, certain documents we seized.

(Q. At what time did you come in here?)

Morning seven," said the CBI official.

Meanwhile, Gidwani seemed to be unfazed by the raid and answered the questions posed by media persons just after the raid was conducted.

He refused to give much detail saying that since the matter is sub-judiced he cannot comment on the case.

"Adarsh Society case has come up due to a high court petition, and since the matter is sub-judiced, so I cannot comment much. But whatever CBI questioned, I answered all of them correctly. I cooperated well and will continue to do so," said Gidwani.

Along with Gidwani, the premises of other two main conspirators in the FIR - former Brigadier M.M. Wanchu, president of the Society and R.C. Thakur, general secretary and main promoter, residence were also raided in the day.

The raids followed a day after the CBI registered an FIR against 13 people on Saturday (January 29), including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan along with other top bureaucrats, army officials and politicians.

The 31-storey Adarsh Housing Society, originally meant for Kargil war heroes, landed in a soup after media reports said that several politicians, bureaucrats and defence personnel owned flats there.