Former Maharashtra Urban Development Principal Secretary, Ramanand Tiwari and ex-BMC Chief Jairaj Pathak were today remanded to CBI custody till April 12 by a special court here for their alleged role in the multi-crore Adarsh Housing scam.Both bureaucrats were arrested yesterday by the CBI after they were questioned in connection with the scam. 

CBI today informed the court that Tiwari, during his tenure as Principal Secretary of Urban Development, had made correspondence with Ministry of Environment and Forests seeking NOC for development of Adarsh Housing Society although the land for the same purpose had not been allotted till then (when the correspondence was made), CBI submitted.