The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Centre, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) of the plea of a serving Army officer seeking a court-monitored CBI probe into allegations of corruption in the Indian Army.
Justice Prateek Jalan, in the order passed on March 27, directed the authorities to submit their respective responses on the plea while posting the case for further hearing on May 19.
Lieutenant Colonel Sumit Sheoran, who is a serving officer, said while posted at New Delhi, he detected and documented large-scale financial irregularities in procurement and misuse of public funds under the Annual Contingent Grant (ACG).
“Goods procured through public funds were deliberately shown as belonging to Officers’ Mess, procurement thresholds were artificially split to evade scrutiny, and false vouchers were generated to conceal the diversion of public property,” his plea before the court claimed.
These irregularities, the plea said, “were not isolated lapses but revealed a structured pattern of diversion of government property, manipulation of procurement processes, falsification of records and abuse of official position by multiple officers acting in concert”.
