Army Chief embarrasses Gen VK Singh (retd) again
R Sedhuraman
Legal Correspondent
New Delhi, August 18
Army Chief Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag has again embarrassed Minister of State for External Affairs Gen Vijay Kumar Singh (retd) by repeating his contention that the minister while leading the army had tried to spoil his chances of getting promotion as Army Commander in June 2012 by levelling “false, baseless and imaginary allegations of lapses” in May 2012.
In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Gen Suhag said the alleged lapses pertained to an operation conducted by the 3 Corps Intelligence and Surveillance Unit at Jorhat, Assam, on December 20-21, 2011. He said he was not even on duty on that day as he was on annual leave and rejoined duty on December 26.
He pleaded that the Court of Inquiry convened by the Eastern Command headquarters did not find “any iota of evidence of any lapse” against him, nor had he been blamed by any agency. Nevertheless, he was served a show-cause notice in May.
“Despite there being no evidence against me at the Court of Inquiry, the show-cause notice was issued as it is clearly established now from the affidavit filed by the Respondents 1 and 2 (Centre and Army) as well as the findings of the Armed Forces Tribunal” on September 6, 2013, Gen Suhag contended.
