A brief introduction to ....
Honourable and trusted members
involved in Defence Scandal exposed by
sources www.tehelka.com
| Brig. Anil Sehgal Director, Directorate General of Ordnance and Supply (DGOS) |
He is an ordnance colonel, has worked in DGOS. An electronics engineer, he is presently posted at the Jabalpur ordnance depot. Known to be a corrupt officer. |
| Sashi Menon Senior Section Officer (DGOS), Ministry of Defence |
He provided the entry to tehelka.com in the defence field. With access to all defence documents, Menon, along with Sehgal, was instrumental in passing on sensitive information about the Indian army's defence requirements. |
| Lieutenant Colonel Sharma In-Charge, Procurement, Air Headquarters |
He is dealing with big domestic players and companies, and is the sole in-charge of this department. |
| Brigadier Iqbal Singh Prospective Procurement Officer (PPO), Ordnance, Ministry of Defence |
Hold the Indian army's Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) for Meritorious Service in Sri Lanka during the IPKF operations. One of the most powerful brigadiers of the Indian army, he is also known as the right-hand man of Lt Gen Dhillon, Master General Ordnance (MGO). |
| Lieutenant Colonel Sayal (Retd) Defence middleman, formerly with the Directorate General of Ordnance and Supply |
Sayal took voluntary retirement and started doing liaisoning work for Classic Plywood Company, Jammu. He is in nexus with a lot of senior officers in the Indian army. Batchmate of Brigadier Iqbal Singh. |
| Major General P S K Choudary Additional Director General, Weapons & Equipment (ADE, WE) |
An expert in the field of weapon and equipment analysing, he is known as a technician in the army sector. |
| Major General Manjit Singh Ahluwalia Director General of Ordnance and Supply (DGOS) |
His field of expertise is procuring domestic items for the Indian army. |
| Major General S P Murgai (Retd) Additional Director General, Quality Assurance |
During his tenure
in South Block, he favoured a lot of domestic companies. He holds a good relationship in the political circuit. |
| Narendra Singh Additional Financial Advisor, Ministry of Defence |
One of the corrupt officers in the Defence Financial Advisory Panel, he owns a lot of property in Delhi. Several foreign companies approach him for collecting the clear data of each project funding and the total amount. If there is any deal delay in delivering the money to the clients, he will seek out the problem with respect of money. |
| H C Pant Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence |
Pant has 25 years of experience in the Ministry of Defence. He has good relations with politicians, senior bureaucrats and big dealers in India. He belongs to the Central Secretariat Service. |
| Deepak Gupta Defence middleman and industrialist |
Gupta has been doing liaisoning work primarily for Russian companies. He was the political mediator of Sukhoi-30 Mk and has clinched several deals in the BJP government. |
| Rakesh Nigam Freelance Liaisoning Officer |
Second-rung defence fixer, who claims a direct in with Defence Secretary Yogesh Narain |
| Raj Kumar Gupta Defence middleman, national trustee, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh |
For the past 25 years, he has been the trustee of the RSS. His political graph has been to achieve big deals from the ruling parties. He is known to be the RSS and BJP financier. |
| Lieutenant Colonel Berry (Retd) | Defence middleman, formerly with the Signals Service Department |
| Mohinder Pal Sahni Defence middleman, Honorary Consul General, Belize |
Sahni is known as a fixer in India and abroad. For the past five years, he has clinched many big deals. Several senior bureaucrats and politicians are regular visitors at his house. Twenty years ago, he was an orange vendor in Defence Colony. |
| Major S J Singh (Retd) Defence middleman, formerly in the infantry |
One of the big fixers in the Indian subcontinent. Not even in the Indian army, he has a nexus with the petroleum ministry, power ministry and home ministry. |
| Major General Satnam Singh Director General of Operations, Kargil Sector |
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| R K Jain Defence middleman, national treasurer, Samata Party |
Former industrialist who was invited by Defence Minister George Fernandes to be treasurer of the Samata Party. Claims to have contributed more than Rs 50 crore to the party and made Rs 10 crore for himself in the bargain. |
| Bangaru Laxman National president, Bharatiya Janata Party |
The first Dalit president of the largest political party in power. He started his political career with the RSS, and then joined the Jan Sangh and later the BJP. |
| Satyamurthi Private Secretary to Bangaru Laxman |
Before joining with Laxman, he worked with a multinational company in Chennai. He is the right-hand man of Bangaru Laxman. |
| Surendra Singh Sulekha | Sulekha has been a supplier of defence uniforms to the Ministry of Defence since the past 20 years. He has good contacts in political circles. His policy of business is to keep politicians and bureaucrats in his pocket by paying them money. He is known to be close to Jaya Jaitly. |
| Jaya Jaitly President, Samata Party |
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| L M Mehta Additional Defence Secretary |
He is the second-most powerful bureaucrat in the Ministry of Defence after the Defence Secretary. His nexus with politicians and other senior bureaucrats is crystal clear. He states his commission straightforwardly to the client for the work that he will do |
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