Ex Army Chief, Gen Deepak Kapoor
An army court of inquiry (CoI) into Mumbai’s Adarsh Housing Society scam has indicted former chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and Gen N.C. Vij.
The CoI also indicted four lieutenant generals and three major generals. The officers indicted include Lt Gen G.S. Sihota, Lt Gen P.K. Rampal, Lt Gen Shantanu Choudhry, Lt Gen Tejinder Singh, Maj Gen Ram Kanwar Hooda, Maj Gen A.R. Kumar, Major Gen V.S. Yadav and Maj Gen Tej Kishen Kaul.
The CoI found the conduct of the officers blameworthy. It said that prima facie culpability had been exposed and it was now for the CBI to probe the matter.
Ex Army Chief, Gen N C Vij
The army submitted its CoI report to the defence ministry last week.
In December last year, Defence Minister A.K. Antony had ordered a CBI probe to fix responsibility of the armed forces and defence estates officers in the Adarsh scam, in which a private housing society got NOC to construct a 31-storey complex on a plot in Colaba.
The plot was meant for Kargil war heroes but they did not get homes in the complex. The scam also cost then Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan his job.
-via India Today and Times Now
My query is that Is Gen Lokpal Bill going to have jurisdiction over corruption in Armed Forces or not. The malice of corruption is much more deeper in armed forces than bureacrats and politician. Simply there is no platform to expose military corruption and with its draconian acts, it is not possible. Even Armed Forces Tribunals are manipulated by Administrative Members of AFT. You can not expect ex Generals to sit over and decide against their peers, colleagues and the organisation to which they belonged and still plays golf together in those illegal golf grounds.