Just in: Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan moves the high court in the Adarsh scam seeking the quashing of the case against him.

Nearly two months ago, he was chargesheeted in the Adarsh Housing Society scam and cheating and corruption cases were registered against him by the CBI. Chavan and 12 others were chargesheeted by the CBI on July 4, with the Congress leader being accused of granting some approvals to the housing society in upscale Colaba as quid-pro-quo for allotment of three flats to his kin.

In his petition filed under section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the former chief minister has reiterated the stand taken by the Maharashtra government that the CBI does not have jurisdiction to probe the matter as neither the state government not the HC had handed over the case to the premier investigating agency.