Magistrate Jay Thareja warns Gen. V.K.Singh & counsel
Delhi High Court PR Wire | India News Political Bureau, New Delhi, Saturday July 27, 2013, 18:16 PM (IST)
Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja told former Army Chief V.K. Singh's counsel Vishwajeet Singh today, "Don't tell me if I should recuse nyself or not. ... Just because I do not say anything or don't put my foot down on the matter, it does not mean that you can take me for granted by taking advantage of my leniency".
The court also heard advocate Anil Aggarwal, appearing for complainant Lt Gen (Retd) Tejinder Singh, who moved two applications seeking cancellation of bail granted to V.K. Singh and cancellation of exemption granted to other four persons, against whom he had filed the defamation case.
Tejinder Singh had filed a criminal defamation case against V.K. Singh, Vice Chief of Army S.K. Singh, Lt Gen B.S. Thakur (Director General of Military Intelligence), Major General S.L. Narsimhan (Additional Director General of Public Information) and Colonel Hiten Sawhney.
The court said that it would take up all matters, including Gen. Singh's pleas for personal exemption on 21 August.
The former army chief had said he was offered a kickback of Rs.14 crore by a retired defence officer in exchange for clearing a tranche of 600 sub-standard vehicles.
Denying the allegations put out by army headquarters, Lt. Gen. Tejinder Singh who had headed the Defence Intelligence Agency said the army headquarters press release of March 5 which publicly accused him and a group of serving officers of the Military Intelligence (MI) was a "fabricated fiction" to create a rift between the army chief and the government, in addition to being defamatory and libelous.
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