New Delhi: General Officer Commanding of Eastern Command is reported to have recommended the removal of Military Secretary at the Army Headquarters Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash in connection with the Darjeeling land scam.
Along with Lt Gen Prakash court martial proceedings against Lt Gen PK Rath, current commander of 11 Corps Lt Gen Ramesh Halgali and Major General P Sen have also been recommended by the Court of Inquiry.
Sources said the recommendation has been sent to Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, who will take the final decision.
The recommendation to act against Lt Gen Prakash and the three other officers follows the completion of the Court of Inquiry into a land scam related to 70 acre plot of land close to the Sukhna military base near Darjeeling. .
The top Army officers have been accused of favouring a private body by issuing a 'no-objection certificate' to a private establishment that falsely claimed to be establishing an affiliate of the famed Ajmer-based Mayo College to an Army base near Siliguri.
There were even allegations of forged documents replacing original papers in Army files.
The generals have denied the allegations and the final decision on action against the officers rests with the Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor.
Lt Gen PK Rath's appointment as Deputy Chief of Army Staff has already been scrapped by the Ministry of Defence.
But it is clear with the top brass now indicted in the case pressure will be on the Army to act and act fast.
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