Army land scam spreads, from Bengal to Uttarakhand

The Army land fraud case in Darjeeling threatens to turn into a major scandal with a probe indicating that an educational institution posing as an affiliate of the Mayo College in Ajmer was close to finalising more deals elsewhere to purchase military land.

This comes even as Defence Minister A K Antony today asked Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar to order an inquiry into the case that has brought some of the seniormost Army officers under the scanner. The Ministry inquiry will be separate from the Court of Inquiry (CoI) that has been convened by the Army, Ministry officials said.

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