The Defence Ministry is contemplating stringent action against anyone found guilty in the Adarsh Housing Society scam case. South Block sources said, measures have also been recommended to prevent recurrence of such scams in future.Army, Navy and Defence estates have already submitted their report to the Ministry in this regard which is being vetted. These reports are to form the basis of action to be taken by the government. The findings suggest that there prima facie was a criminal conspiracy in the Adarsh Housing Society in which some Army officers in Mumbai had issued a No Objection Certificate to the building coming up on the land.Accordingly, the ministry is collating all the relevant information from the three reports and is contemplating punitive action against its retired and serving personnel and the housing society. The options being considered included probes by CBI and by Income Tax on the money trail for the housing project. It will also ask the Army and Navy to initiate a court of inquiry into the serving personnel’s role in the episode to find out who transferred the land to the society, how they did it and when it was carried out.In a related development, former Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor this evening met Defence Minister A.K. Antony. Defence sources said, Gen. Kapoor is understood to have explained his position. He is also understood to have informed the Minister that he had immediately surrendered the allotment of an apartment in his name, along with another former Army Chief Gen N C Vij and former Navy Chief Admiral Madhavendra Singh, soon after learning that there was a provision for Kargil martyrs in the housing society.AIR correspondent reports, the 100-metre tall building had reportedly come up on a 6490 sqare meters plot of land that was originally in Army’s possession since early 1940s. The army troops in Mumbai were using it for their training purposes till 2000, when the land was reportedly transferred to the housing society for construction of the apartment building.