Terming Maharashtra government's objection to a CBI probe into the Adarsh scam as “illegal and malafide”, the Defence Ministry today rejected the ruling by a state-appointed judicial panel that the land on which the controversial building stands, belongs to the state. In an affidavit filed in the Bombay High Court, the Ministry made it clear that it has not accepted the Judicial Commission's ruling settling the ownership of the plot in favour of the state governent, dubbing it as “completely flawed”. The ministry also stated that the Commission’s report is not binding on either the government or the court and has not accepted the report.The Defence Ministry said in an affidavit filed before a division bench of Justices S A Bobade and Mridula Bhatkar that the report of the Commission is completely flawed, contrary to the evidence on record and is made on patently incorrect interpretation of law.The Maharashtra government and Adarsh Society have contested CBI's jurisdiction to probe the alleged scam on the ground that neither the state, nor the High Court had handed over the investigation to the Central agency, as required under the law. The CBI launched its probe into the scam on the direction of the Defence Ministry after an inquiry by the Army Chief. It formally registered an FIR in January last year.