Land scam: CBI begins probe against Army officers

The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Central Bureau of Investigation has initiated a preliminary enquiry to investigate allegations that senior officers of the Army while serving in the Southern Command had allegedly sold a piece of land owned by the Army to a private developer.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI- ACB) has initiated a preliminary enquiry to investigate allegations that senior officers of the Army while serving in the Southern Command had allegedly sold a piece of land owned by the Army to a private developer.

A press statement issued on Friday by the CBI-ACB said the allegations had come to light after a report was received by the agency from the Additional Director General,Discipline and Vigilance MOD (Army). The report was sent to the agency on Thursday.

It was alleged in the report that certain senior Army officers while serving in the Southern Command committed gross misconduct in as much as a plot of land,which was in the possession of the Central Ordnance Depot (COD),Kandivali,Mumbai,was relinquished unauthorisedly and later on the same was sold to M/s Neo Pharma (Kalpataru Builders), the statement said. The said company has constructed a 31-storey apartment on the plot,which is overlooking the Ordnance Depot of the Army,and thereby compromised the security of the Ordnance Depot. Serious complicities of the officials of the Collector,Mumbai is also alleged in the report. The CBI has taken up the enquiry,it said.

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