Army report blames ex -chiefs in Adarsh scam

New Delhi: The Army's Court of Enquiry (CoI) indicts two ex-chiefs General Deepak Kapoor and General NC Vij in the Adarsh Scam. The report says that their conduct was blameworthy - and wants the CBI to step in.
Army Court of Inquiry also blames top raking officers including Lt Gen GS Sihota, Lt Gen PK Rampal, Lt Gen Shantanu Choudhury, Lt Gen Tejinder singh, Major Gen RK Hooda, Maj Gen AR Kumar, Maj Gen VS Yadav, Maj Hen TK Kaul.
Army Court of Inquiry indicts ex-chiefs, but both of them did not depose before the CoI.
The Army submitted its Court of Inquiry report on the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam on Wednesday to the Defence Ministry.
The report now has once again stressed that the land on which Adarsh society stands is Defence land. And that a no-objection certificate was issued to private developers in violation of rules.
The report also says that the Navy had raised security concerns saying Adarsh over-looked important military installations.
The Court of Inquiry has also looked at the role of Major General RK Hooda in issuing an NoC to construct a 31-storey building. The CoI was ordered by Army's Pune-based Southern Command to investigate the role ofHooda and various other officers.
The army court of inquiry is independent of the CBI probe into the matter - several former army officers, including army and naval Chiefs, were allotted flats in the society which was originally meant for families of Kargil martyrs.
Hooda was the Mumbai-based area commander for Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa.
The 104-apartment society got embroiled in a controversy after the navy had raised concerns over security as the building over-looked important military installations.
On December 9 last year, Defence Minister AK Antony had ordered a CBI probe to fix responsibility of the armed forces and defence estates officers in the housing scam.
He had asked the CBI to look into the circumstances under which a 'No Objection Certificate' was issued to the housing society to construct the 31-storey building on a piece of land, which was in the "de facto" possession of the Army.
The probe agency was also asked to investigate into the commitments made for allotment of flats in the society for Kargil widows and martyrs' families.
Former army chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij, apart from former navy chief Admiral Madhavendra Singh had flats allotted in their names in the housing society.
Soon after the scam came to light, the defence ministry had asked the Army, Navy and the defence estates to submit a report on the issue. The preliminary findings of the ministry's probe brought out "criminal conspiracy" at the local level in army and defence estates to give up the land, which was in army's possession till 1999-2000, in favour of the housing society.

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