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| Did not offer Army chief 14-crore |
| Did not offer Army chief 14-crore bribe, says retired officer Tejinder Singh
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| INDIA
, 26-March-2012
6:5:3 AM |
| The Defence Minister has reportedly ordered a CBI inquiry into the Rs. 14-crore bribe that the Army chief says he was offered in exchange for clearing the purchase of 600 sub-standard vehicles. General VK Singh said that in 2010, six months into his tenure, a retired Army officer offered him the money, and that he shared the information immediately with the Defence Minister AK Antony.
The man who allegedly visited him in his office with the promise of a kickback has told NDTV he denies the charges. "I do not think VK Singh has said that I made or did not make this sort of offer," said Tejinder Singh, who retired as a Lieutenant General and had served as a chief of the Defence Intelligence Agency. He was named in a press release by the Army earlier this month for offering bribes after he retired on behalf of a company called Tatra and Vetra, which supplies vehicles to the Army. The Army chief was allegedly offered the bribe to sanction the Army's purchase of a new consignment of vehicles from the same company. (Watch: Bribe charge - Army chief tells all)
General Singh disclosed the details of the bribe in an interview with The Hindu newspaper. The allegations have been seized by the opposition to attack the government in Parliament. Both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned. The BJP, while seeking details from the government, also pointed out that the Army chief should have filed a case as soon as the bribe was suggested to him.
The retired officer who has denied the charges has also been allotted a flat in the Adarsh Society, a high-rise building in Mumbai whose apartments were intended for war veterans and widows, but were instead given to politicians, bureaucrats and defence officers. Tejinder Singh told NDTV that he met with the Army chief once after he retired, but said he would disclose the circumstances of that meeting later.
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