Corruption in Army: Dent in the Brass ; the Indictment of Generals by a Court of Inquiry Raises Questions About Corruption at the Top Damaging the Army's Moral Fibre and Image.

India Today › January 05, 2010

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For the first time in the army's recent history, three lieutenantgenerals and one major general have been held guilty of acts of omission in a single case investigated by a military court of inquiry (COI). Equally unprecedented is believed to be the recommendation by the Eastern Army Commander Lt-General V.K. Singh for the summary dismissal of Military Secretary Lt-General Avadesh Prakash, an officer who decides all the transfers, postings and promotions of senior officers. A summary dismissal is one of the harshest punishments the military can hand down-an officer is stripped of rank, will not be entitled to pension or other benefits and worse, will not even qualify as an ex-serviceman.

Even though the present case is shorn of all the sensational wheeling dealing of the Tehelka sting operation and other procurement scandals, it is perhaps the worst sendoff for army chief General Deepak Kapoor who retires three months from now. The COI, which was convened in October this year by Lt-General Singh, now tipped to be the next army chief, probed the controversial circumstances under which the Sukhna-based 33 Corps gave out a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to a private developer for building a girls' school on the 70-acre plot.

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Corruption in Army: Dent in the Brass ; the Indictment of Generals by a Court of Inquiry Raises Questions About Corruption at the Top Damaging the Army's Moral Fibre and Image.

Besides Prakash (who is to retire on January 31, 2010), others indicted in the case include Lt-General P.K. Rath, the former General Officer Commandingin-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Sukhna-based 33 Corps and cleared to take over as deputy chief of army staff at army headquarters (the promotion order was quashed by the Defence Ministry) and Lt-General...

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