‘Defence Ministry leaked Secret information’
New Delhi. Five days before his controversial tenure as Army chief comes to an end, Gen V K Singh on Saturday criticised criticized the Defence Ministry for “illegitimately” releasing “top secret” information related to his age, while making his displeasure clear with the Supreme Court’s handling of the case related to his age row in February.
Speaking to a TV channel, General Singh alleged that papers related to his age and classified “top secret” by the Ministry of Defence itself were “illegitimately” released by it. He claimed that there was an “obvious” effort to “fix” him and said that somebody from the defence ministry was responsible for “selective leaking” the information.
Talking about the Supreme Court, the General said that a very senior apex court judge had told him to “blow with the wind”. “If all of us are going to blow with the wind then we will all become muggers, we will all become corrupt,” he said, according to a transcript of his interview released by the Times Now channel.
Justice Lodha, to whom the apparent reference was made, had actually remarked, “wise men are those who move with the wind. We take pride in having (an) officer like you. Credit must go to you.” In a separate interview to another TV channel, the Army chief said that he had withdrawn his petition on the age issue because the Supreme Court gave no no decision. “They tried to arbitrate. Then I realised that you are fighting a system.”
During the interviews, Singh said it was not not “just lobbies” working against him, but “some people are trying to protect people who are basically doing wrong things.”
