Tatra Scam

Lieutenant General (retired) Tejinder Singh on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail, soon after the trial court rejected his plea for relief and he was arrested for allegedly offering Rs 14 crore bribe to then Army Chief General V K Singh for clearing a file pertaining to Tatra vehicles.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed a closure report in a case related to alleged irregularities in Tatra all-terrain vehicle supplied to the Indian army.

In its probe in the Tatra truck scam, the CBI has found a 1994 offer letter from Czech manufacturer Tatra expressing willingness for direct collaboration with BEML for supplying completely built trucks at 40 per cent discount on their retail price, on condition to do away with intermediaries.

Alarmed at the recent reports of senior retired officers of the armed forces acting as agents of arms manufacturing companies, the Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence has said that the "cooling off" period for officers of the rank of Brigadiers and above (equivalent of the other three services) be increased to five years instead of the curre...

Defence Minister AK Antony has said the government is looking into allegations that a contract to buy 12 helicopters for the Air Force from an Italian firm was seeped in corruption.

On a day when VRS Natarajan, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) - one of India's biggest defence Public Sector Units (PSUs) - was questioned by the CBI while investigating the Tatra truck scam, there is more trouble for him.

Has the whistle-blower in the Tatra truck scam gone underground fearing for his life? Since the Army Chief General VK Singh disclosed last week that he was offered 14-crores as a bribe to clear "sub-standard" trucks, a new surge of attention is being paid to the 7000 Tatra trucks that have been bought by the Army since 1986. Tatra is a Czech-manu...

The revelation by the Army chief, General VK Singh, of an offer of a 14-crore bribe has sharply brought into focus what was really at stake. The bribe was allegedly offered by a lobbyist for a truck supplier who flooded the Army for more than two decades with 7,000 over-priced vehicles which performed poorly when put to use.

Lieutenant General (retired) Tejinder Singh on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking bail, soon after the trial court rejected his plea for relief and he was arrested for allegedly offering Rs 14 crore bribe to then Army Chief General V K Singh for clearing a file pertaining to Tatra vehicles.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed a closure report in a case related to alleged irregularities in Tatra all-terrain vehicle supplied to the Indian army.

In its probe in the Tatra truck scam, the CBI has found a 1994 offer letter from Czech manufacturer Tatra expressing willingness for direct collaboration with BEML for supplying completely built trucks at 40 per cent discount on their retail price, on condition to do away with intermediaries.

Alarmed at the recent reports of senior retired officers of the armed forces acting as agents of arms manufacturing companies, the Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence has said that the "cooling off" period for officers of the rank of Brigadiers and above (equivalent of the other three services) be increased to five years instead of the curre...

Defence Minister AK Antony has said the government is looking into allegations that a contract to buy 12 helicopters for the Air Force from an Italian firm was seeped in corruption.

On a day when VRS Natarajan, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) - one of India's biggest defence Public Sector Units (PSUs) - was questioned by the CBI while investigating the Tatra truck scam, there is more trouble for him.

Has the whistle-blower in the Tatra truck scam gone underground fearing for his life? Since the Army Chief General VK Singh disclosed last week that he was offered 14-crores as a bribe to clear "sub-standard" trucks, a new surge of attention is being paid to the 7000 Tatra trucks that have been bought by the Army since 1986. Tatra is a Czech-manu...

The revelation by the Army chief, General VK Singh, of an offer of a 14-crore bribe has sharply brought into focus what was really at stake. The bribe was allegedly offered by a lobbyist for a truck supplier who flooded the Army for more than two decades with 7,000 over-priced vehicles which performed poorly when put to use.