Former Congress legislator Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, who was chargesheeted in the Adarsh Society scam, died in Mumbai on Tuesday following a brief illness.

Gidwani, 64, was undergoing treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, in south Mumbai and died due to a heart ailment, family sources said

He was the chief promoter of the controversial Adarsh Society in Colaba and had also worked as spokesperson of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee.