Bharat Rakshak

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120705/main3.htm

Job scam: Antony orders transfer of NDA Commandant
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 4
Defence Minister AK Antony today ordered the immediate removal of Pune’s National Defence Academy Commandant Lt Gen Jatinder Singh days after the CBI unearthed a jobs-for-cash scam there.

“This (the Commandant’s removal) is with the view to ensure a free and fair investigation in the alleged bribery racket in the recruitment of Group ‘C’ posts in the
NDA,” a Defence Ministry spokesperson said.

The CBI today arrested Colonel AK Singh, a Physical Training Officer, at the NDA. He is the Presiding Officer of the Board appointed by the Academy to select subordinate staff. Colonel Singh was produced before the Special Judge in Pune, the CBI said.

The decision to transfer Lt Gen Singh from the NDA and the arrest of Colonel AK Singh comes 10 days after the CBI busted a recruitment scam at the NDA.

On June 24, the CBI had arrested six persons, including a serving Colonel, for allegedly receiving bribe for allegedly taking bribes of Rs 3-4 lakh per candidate for subordinate staff jobs, including those of cooks and gardeners. The CBI had claimed to have recovered Rs 1.76 crore from different locations in connection with the case. Among those arrested ten days ago was Colonel Kulbir Singh, staff officer to NDA Commandant Lt Gen Jatinder Singh.

The CBI had said, “The Staff Officer, in conspiracy with the other accused, obtained illegal gratification of Rs 3-4 lakh from each candidate to appoint them as cooks, gardeners, lab attendants, library attendants and cadet orderly."

The accused had allegedly taken signature of candidates on blank answersheets and subsequently filled in correct answers by fraudulent means. Thus, the actual deserving candidates were cheated.

Ever since New Army Chief Bikram Singh took over on June 1, he has kept his promise “nothing will be brushed under the carpet”. Besides this case, action has been taken against a Brigadier who was taking loans from his juniors.

The case

June 24: CBI arrests six persons, including a serving Colonel, for allegedly receiving bribe of Rs 3-4 lakh per candidate for subordinate staff jobs, including those of cooks and gardeners
The CBI claimed to have recovered Rs 1.76 crore from different locations in connection with the case
Among those arrested was Colonel Kulbir Singh, staff officer to NDA Commandant Lt Gen Jatinder Singh

Indian Soldier killed in Congo

Anybody have details on who was KIA? As usual ToIlet wants to write about everything under the sun in its article except about the Indian soldier who died - Nehruvian education at its best

Why blame Nehru for morons?

He was their leader wasn't he?? Vallabh bhai patel should have been the prime minister of Bharat. Atleast we could have gotten rid of 30-40% of the social and govt ills we have today

How is the raising of a new corps progressing without finances being approved and allocated by the finance ministry? Could someone please explain. Also, I remember reading the number to be 90000 additional troops and not 60000 as the report points out. So has it been reduced to 60000 now, ie 2 mountain strike corps?

^^^Two mountain divisions have already been raised in the NE and are part of III and IV Corps...so, this ~30K accretion in numbers is in addition to the strength of proposed Mountain Strike Corps. Hope this helps.

Adarsh scam: Ex-army chiefs called to depose


Have their flats been taken back?
Did Antony not know that Tejinder and others had a flat in Adarsh?
Is this Hooda the same whose son/relative is supposed to be close to Chidambram's son?

What a group!

^^ Is it the same (in) famous Teja of Tat ra fame?
Lt. Gen Hooda was seen defending Govt on various TV Channels in Age Row.
Gen Kamphor was the one who planned the Line of succession.

All beneficiary of Ideal Housing

Was going through an article in Indiandefencereview by former Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Harwant Singh about the Kargil war. It was a really disheartening read and paints a really sad and grim picture of the Ops. Posting the article here, if someone could shed more light on it. A bit long but worth a read -

http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/kargil-controversy-mismanagement-of-higher-defence/

Hope things have changed now for the better!!!

It seems Sainik school Kunjpura was the incubator for a big portion of this incestuous group which managed to lodge itself the Indian Army.
The Arun Nanda was the who was forced to resign by COAS V.K Singh on Sexual Misconduct charges.
Not sure if he is also related to Admiral Nanda's (infamous) family.
SSK - Alumini

Kargil was a good lesson for us to create the role of CDS to enable decision-making seamlessly across the services

What really surprises me is the procrastination by MoD/GoI in making a decision (irrespecitve of whether it is BJP or Congress). What is it that they are afraid of? How much can (or rather should) turf war between IA and IAF be allowed to derail this. It can't just be seen as an inter-services problem... It is of national interest

I am not blaming Nehru, I am using his name to characterize that type of thinking. In fact the specific incident which came to my mind was when they are trying to decide during their cabinet meeting or somesuch whether to accept Hari Singh's accession for J&K and during the meeting Nehru stands up and talks about everything under the sun including God, UN, NAM, Congo, Lady Mountbatten's bongos, everything except the question at hand....till Sardar Patel gets up and asked exasperatedly "Jawaharlal, do you want Kashmir or not???" Nehru silently nods yes and Sardar Patel immediately tells the IA officer in the room that he has his order and thats when the 1st airlift with Major Somnath Sharma and his men begins.

Nehru may have been a great man (so is Manmohan) but he was not a great leader...not even a good one (and neither is Manmohan). I think India will forever regret 2 things: Sardar Patel not becoming PM and LBS passing away in harness.

A Congress committee voted 13-3 to make Sardar Patel PM. It was "mahatma" Gandhi who forced Nehru down India's throat condemning millions to socialist inspired poverty and the festering wound called Cashmere.

Imagine JLN as HM. You would have 600 independent countries within India's borders. Now what was that saying about lesser of two evils?

x-posting
originally posted by ramana in Inder malhotra series thread



Army’s shadow over Shastri’s succession: Inder Malhotra

merlin wrote:

With the Sardar in charge Nehru would have hopefully reduced to the figurehead role he deserved,

I would think, if LBS ji signed the cheque at Tashkent then he should pick up the tab for it.

Why Lt Col Purohit's case may have the Army searching for cover | NDTV Video



1. His ACR says he infiltrated Muslim Fundamentalist Groups, that without a shadow of doubt means that his superiors knew about his activities. Wouldn't that in turn mean that Home Ministry has sanctioned MI to operate inside a non-disturbed area? Aren't non-disturbed areas purview of IB alone?

2. Other than MFOs, lets hold our comments vis-a-vis his links to Abhinav Bharat till IA clarifies whether the officer was infiltrating the group or did he cross the line.

Seems redux of Shekhar Gupta's supposed 'breaking news' ...though last time it was only a routine troop movement for routine winter exercise.

Breaking news on TV :
Lt. Colnel Sanjay Shandilya found with Bangladeshi woman Sheeba who has previously trapped another one before. They were caught in a five star hotel. The Officer's and his senior's laptop missing. This is the second case in a year. Bharat Varma on Zee News criticising IA.
The officer was posted on the Paki border. He met her on Facebook.

Truly, we deserve the DDM as much as they deserve us.



available online at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 824143.cms

How do they come up with fake news like this..
There should be a penalty.

May be ISI tipped off DDM so it can get away after blaming IA, for which IA had to report certain clarifications. Our DDM is anyway good at spreading stink of ISI propaganda.

Thanks Shiv ji, I have deleted it. Will be more careful in future.

This may be a Chinese propaganda image. To me the uniforms don't look Indian, and I vaguely recall seeing a similar pic earlier

What can be more laughable than the name of this book. Soldier's general? Yeah right! Send soldiers to work at his wife's shop. Treated the 'Sahayaks' as some servant. Not even a patch on VKS.

The good General cried profusely out of unexpected happiness when he was announced as COAS.

Hindustan Times: Focus China: Strike corps plan back on drawing board
Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, July 15, 2012

The UPA government has sent back the army's 2011 proposal for raising a new mountain strike corps at Pannagarh in West Bengal to the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) this month in order to bring the navy and air force on board and broad base its military capability against China.

The three armed forces chiefs will deliberate on the plan in their next meeting after adding hardware requirements of the air force and navy too in a bid to synergise future operations.

Top official sources said once the three chiefs decide on their specific individual requirements to strengthen the northern borders and deployment in the Indian Ocean, the new proposal will be sent to the Cabinet Committee on Security after due whetting of the defence ministry.

As first reported by HT last August, the army had moved an ambitious proposal to raise a strike corps with two divisions (total of 60,000 men) against China at Pannagarh, position two armoured regiments at Nathu La in Sikkim and Fukche in Ladakh respectively, and deploy an additional infantry brigade to Barahoti plains in Uttarakhand. After being cleared by the defence ministry last year, the proposal was sent to the finance ministry, followed by the CCS, for approval.

The decision to send back the COSC plan came after the country's security managers felt all three services needed to muscle up against the rising military capability of the northern neighbour, and not just the army. The move also came after the navy and air force raised concerns over preferential treatment to army modernisation by the government.

"We have asked the three chiefs to discuss among themselves their hardware requirements within the designated modernisation budget, and come up with a wholesome proposal," said a senior official.

Apart from the army, the air force and navy will also be sending proposals to the COSC before the final view is taken on what new air and naval assets, including helicopters for advance landing grounds and warships for longer reach into Indian Ocean, will be required.

However, given the speed at which China is building its military capacities, defence minister AK Antony has said if the tri-service proposal is not brought to the table soon, the ministry will intervene to allocate military resources within the budget.

what about Arjun Mk 2 ? anybody know ?

Lion of Naoshera

Birth centenary of Indo-Pak war hero celebrated


Pakturds lurkers read and weep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Usman

Naushera Ka Sher. That's what Brig Usman was known as. Few know how he died. It was not the injuries in siege that killed him. He stood in the open during an artillery strike and organised an evacuation of his men to the bunker. He is said to died shielding a jawan from a shell blast.

Gen JJ Singh was widely considered a good chief by BRF until VKS started to peel off the skin to show the rot. Media latched on to JJ Singh with suspicion of wrong doing and it sold readily because him being a Sikh, PM being a sikh and the person that is replacing VKS being also sikh. All of this could very well be true but remains unproven.

He didn't get a flat in adarsh society, neither he cleared any controversial land deal or found to be involved in a fake encounter, ration scam or sex scandal. There is a chance that he might not be a bad guy except for some minor flaws etc. I think the 2 other generals that followed JJ were purely bad people and there is enough direct evidence available to show their culpability.

Amitabh Bachchan's name was recently cleared of Bofors scandal after 25+ years by the Swiss police chief. Reputation of innocent people can get sullied just because they happen to be in the room when the $hit hit the fan.

you must have not been reading then. JJ Singh was considered iffy from the first and long before VKS came along his doings were open secret.

I have been reading I thought but if i missed something would like to correct it? What did you read in pre VKS era that I missed?

^ IIRC, Brig. RayC made some comments here much before VKS episode.

Per a panwala, JJ's son runs an import-export business in Dilli.