NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal was acquitted by a special court on Thursday in the Maharashtra Sadan scam case which was probed by the state Anti-Corruption Bureau.
The case relates to a 2005-2006 when the NCP leader as the PWD minister allegedly gave contract for the construction of Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi to be built on a piece of land belonging to Regional Transport Office.
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According to the ACB, the contractors had ‘earned 80 per cent profit’, while as per the government, such contractors were entitled to ‘only 20 per cent profit’.
Bhujbal had put a defense saying that the decision to hand over the project to the firm was taken by the Cabinet Committee in a meeting headed by the then Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Bhujbal’s two relatives and five others were also cleared of all charges by the court.