Talk:Adarsh Housing Society scandal

Consequences? Outcome?
what came of this? were there any indictments? convictions? Did any court invalidate any of the transactions? This article seems a little bit frozen in time..... Wefa (talk) 00:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

As of 27-05-18: There is no further progress in either prosecuting those responsible for the Adarsh Housing Society Scam; or to find out the truth about the collaborative effort of politicians, army officials and bureaucrats which led to flagrant violation of norms. The building has NOT been demolished yet. No closure. India wake up! This scam is also going underground!

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Article is misnomed and has still not improved
I have a major problem with this article's name and content. This is not a scam at all - a scam is a confidence based fraud against a person or institution; none of that happened here. No person is a victim here, and more specifically, no one was deceived about anything. Is was just people making decisions, and quite openly so. No successful prosecution resulted from the scandal at all.

What happened was that people of considerable influence but limited means banded together and exploited their collective influence to seize an opportunity to build apartments. If there was any damage then it was that the land could have been sold on the free market for a better price; but if that was ever an option is anyone's guess. Also harmed were bribe-taking lower officials who could not command the usual bribes for the project because their higher-ups steered it through the process, as they either had vested interests or favors were called in. Calling this a scam is the product of sensationalist Indian newspaper reporting. It is a classical scandal, and apparently, no laws were even technically broken. So I would argue to rename the article "Adarsh Housing Society scandal". 87.147.186.79 (talk) 04:24, 26 March 2019 (UTC)


 * In view of the very valid and unrebutted criticism above I have moved the article. I also intend to remove vague language such as "scam" leaving only concrete allegations and facts. DJ Clayworth (talk) 19:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The proposal was to change the word "scam" to "scandal". I can support that, so "Adarsh Housing Society scandal" and not only "Adarsh Housing Society". There may be no sources about the housing society; no demographics, no architectural reviews, no statements of values, and nothing about a civil community living together. These sources are about high-profile individuals on trial for crimes. There are enough sources here for this to be a scandal article. Even if there were sources for the society, then that could be a separate article because we have so much coverage of the scandal.  Bluerasberry   (talk)  16:10, 30 April 2024 (UTC)