Army chief General V K Singh told The Times of India on Thursday that the Adarsh scam, which was exposed by this paper, has "caused embarrassment to the whole army, not just to me, especially since so many officers have been named in it."
"I am concerned and deeply hurt. Some individuals have brought a bad name (to the army) for personal gain. We are sensitizing the rank and file that the army goes by certain norms and codes that must be upheld," Singh said in an interview to TOI.
"I am extremely saddened by the Adarsh revelations. There's a sense of shame within the Army. The Army as an institution has taken a beating, its image has been damaged. It is painful to say the least," Singh told CNN-IBN in a separate interview.
He vowed that no one would be spared and that the guilty would be brought to book, however senior. TOI first reported on October 25 that two former army chiefs Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij, along with a number of other generals, admirals, politicians and bureaucrats, had bagged apartments now worth many crores at Adarsh, a 31-storey building in Colaba in Mumbai. The ministry of defence has already begun investigating what it sees, prima facie, as a "criminal conspiracy".
"At the same time, in a 1.3 million army, some black sheep are not going to affect the remainder of the lot who are straightforward and honest. These are just a few people and they cannot sully the image of the rest of us," Singh added.
He said he had instructed his commanders across the country to take stock of all army land. "They have been told to audit what they hold".
Asked if the force was shamed that Army chiefs were involved in the scam, Singh said, "I think so. Here is a man whom we trusted, here is a person in whom we had faith, here is a person on whose order we were ready to go to battle..I think it will hurt deeply. I think it will have a great amount of psychological impact."
"I am concerned and deeply hurt. Some individuals have brought a bad name (to the army) for personal gain. We are sensitizing the rank and file that the army goes by certain norms and codes that must be upheld," Singh said in an interview to TOI.
"I am extremely saddened by the Adarsh revelations. There's a sense of shame within the Army. The Army as an institution has taken a beating, its image has been damaged. It is painful to say the least," Singh told CNN-IBN in a separate interview.
He vowed that no one would be spared and that the guilty would be brought to book, however senior. TOI first reported on October 25 that two former army chiefs Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij, along with a number of other generals, admirals, politicians and bureaucrats, had bagged apartments now worth many crores at Adarsh, a 31-storey building in Colaba in Mumbai. The ministry of defence has already begun investigating what it sees, prima facie, as a "criminal conspiracy".
"At the same time, in a 1.3 million army, some black sheep are not going to affect the remainder of the lot who are straightforward and honest. These are just a few people and they cannot sully the image of the rest of us," Singh added.
He said he had instructed his commanders across the country to take stock of all army land. "They have been told to audit what they hold".
Asked if the force was shamed that Army chiefs were involved in the scam, Singh said, "I think so. Here is a man whom we trusted, here is a person in whom we had faith, here is a person on whose order we were ready to go to battle..I think it will hurt deeply. I think it will have a great amount of psychological impact."
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