Mumbai: A Bombay High Court bench today&nbsp;recused itself from hearing a petition seeking direction to CBI to produce entire evidence during its investigation into&nbsp;the Adarsh Housing Society scam on the basis of which it had&nbsp;given a clean chit to former Maharashtra Chief Minister&nbsp;Sushilkumar Shinde.
<img title="Sushil Kumar Shinde" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/aug/Shinde.jpg" alt="Sushil Kumar Shinde" /> Former Maharashtra CM Sushil Kumar Shinde. File pic
"Not before us" said a Division bench of Justices V M&nbsp;Kanade and P D Kode when the petition filed by activist Praveen Wategaonkar came up before them.&nbsp;This petition was tagged on to another petition which&nbsp;had sought to make Shinde as an accused in the Adarsh housing&nbsp;scam case. The High Court bench has recused itself from both&nbsp;these petitions.
Wategaonkar had in July 2013 filed the petition&nbsp;seeking to make Shinde as an accused.&nbsp;However, in its reply on October 9, 2013, the CBI&nbsp;gave a clean chit to Shinde saying they had probed the case&nbsp;and found evidence against the former Union Home Minister as&nbsp;"deficient and insufficient."
The petitioner said the Adarsh Commission, in its&nbsp;report tabled before the Maharashtra Legislature, had observed that Shinde, in his capacity as chief minister, had failed to&nbsp;pay attention to a suggestion given by the finance department&nbsp;against allotment of land to the Adarsh housing society.
The petitioner further said that Adarsh Commission&nbsp;report had also concluded that "Shinde had failed to note this and acted in undue haste to bestow benefit on the society."&nbsp;Maharashtra government had on June 9, 2011, appointed a two-member judicial commission, led by a retired Bombay High&nbsp;Court judge J A Patil, with former state chief secretary P&nbsp;Subramanian being the member, to investigate the alleged&nbsp;irregularities and corruption.
Seeking the court"s direction to CBI to produce all&nbsp;evidence it had gathered, Wategaonkar argued that though the CBI did not find any evidence against Shinde, the Adarsh panel&nbsp;has stated that Shinde had failed to act in Adarsh case.&nbsp;CBI had stated in its affidavit filed before the High&nbsp;Court in 2013 that there is no evidence to suggest that Shinde, during his tenure as Maharashtra Chief Minister, had&nbsp;abused his position as a public servant.

A Bombay High Court bench today&nbsp;recused itself from hearing a petition seeking direction to&nbsp;CBI to produce entire evidence during its investigation into&nbsp;the Adarsh Housing Society scam on the basis of which it had&nbsp;given a clean chit to former Maharashtra Chief Minister&nbsp;Sushilkumar Shinde

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