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Four of the Army and defence ministry officials suspended in the wake of the Tehelka.com expose have been put through lie-detector tests and their statements recorded, sources in the army said on Thursday.
Maj Gen PSK Chaudhary, additional director general, weapons and equipment, H C Pant, staff officer, Ordinance Factory Board, Narendera Singh, assistant financial adviser in the ministry of defence and P Sasi, assistant in the army headquarters, were suspended on Wednesday.
The sources said three of the remaining officers who figured in the tapes, Maj Gen M S Ahluwalia, additional director general (ordinance), Brig Iqbal Singh, prospective procurement officer and Col Anil Sehgal, former director in the Director General of Ordinance Services, were yet to report at the Army Headquarters.
Signals have been sent to their units and to their homes to report at the headquarters, they said.
Meanwhile, Army authorities were yet to name an officer to head the Court of Inquiry into the allegations contained against them in the secretly filmed footage.
Army Chief Gen S Padmanabhan, who was away in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, returned to New Delhi and was closeted with senior principal staff officers to finalise details of the Court of Inquiry.
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