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Army Chief alleges victimization, banned illegally by predecessor V.K. Singh

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Army Chief Dalbir Singh has dropped a bombshell by submitting in the Supreme Court a document accusing one of his predecessors, Union Minister VK Singh, of victimising him and trying to stop his promotion. This is the first case of an army chief going public with allegations against a former chief.

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In an affidavit submitted in his personal capacity to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, General Dalbir Singh has said that in 2012 “I was sought to be victimised by the then COAS” General V K Singh “with the sole purpose of denying me promotion to the appointment of Army Commander”.

“False, baseless and imaginary allegations of lapses were levelled against me in the show cause notice (of May 19, 2012),” Gen. Dalbir Singh said. Mr. V K Singh is currently the Minister of State for External Affairs.

“Despite their being no evidence against me at the Court of Inquiry, the show cause notice was issued malafidely,” he said, adding that, “no material whatsoever of attendant circumstances was provided to me. The show cause notice issued, beside suffering from vagueness, was premeditated and also against the principles of natural justice”.

Dalbir Singh was placed under a DV ban by V K Singh between April and May 2012 for alleged “failure of command and control” after a Court of Inquiry was ordered into an operation carried out in Jorhat, Assam on the night of December 20-21, 2011 by the 3 Corps Intelligence and Surveillance Unit.

Dalbir Singh was then General Officer Commanding of the Dimapur-based 3 Corps. Referring to the Jorhat operation in his affidavit, he has stated “on that day, I was away on part of annual leave and rejoined duty on 26 Dec 2011”.

His promotion as GOC-in-C, Eastern Command, with effect from June 15, 2012 was cleared by General Bikram Singh who reversed the DV ban after V K Singh retired on May 31, 2012.

Suhag’s charges come a day after Singh’s wife, Bharti, filed a police complaint against a man, alleging that he has been trying to extort Rs 2 crore by blackmailing her with “doctored” audio-video clips to defame her husband.

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