Multiple choice

Which of the following units of the Indian Army is stationed at Sukna Cantonment, in news for a land scam allegedly involving Military Secretary Lt Gen Avadhesh Prakash recently?

  1. IV Corps, headquartered at Tezpur, Assam

  2. XIV Corps, headquartered at Leh, Jammu and Kashmir

  3. XXXIII Corps, headquartered at Siliguri, West Bengal

  4. XVI Corps, headquartered at Nagrota, Jammu and Kashmir

  5. XI Corps, headquartered at Jalandhar, Punjab

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Court of Inquiry (Col) into the Darjeeling land scam case has revealed that a Siliguri real estate developer and one of the seniormost generals in the Army were in constant touch while a dubious Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was being drafted to clinch the land deal. The Col has established through phone records that real estate developer Dilip Agarwal, who inked the MoU to obtain No Objection Certificates from the Army for 71 acres near the 33 Corps HQ in Sukna Cantonment, was in constant touch with Lt Gen Avadhesh Prakash, Military Secretary (MS) at Army HQ, New Delhi while the deal was being sealed. Lt Gen Prakash did not have a direct role in granting the NOCs but the Col says that he used his influence as one of the seniormost officers in the Army to ensure that the deal went through. The case unravelled after it came to light that a massive land deal in Sukna was cleared by the Army against norms.