Massive Infighting between Indian Army HQ and Indian Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

NEW DELHI: Continuing to vehemently deny allegations of clandestinely tapping phones of senior defense ministry officials, the Army says strict action is being taken against the serving officers spreading such "fictitious, malicious and preposterous'' stories.
With a major-general and a colonel among other officers under the scanner in what has emerged as a bitter factional feud within the 1.13-million strong force, Army chief General V K Singh said, Necessary action will be taken against some of these officers. Our aim is that we come up with facts upfront and we don't hide them. Such fiction has to be countered.''
The raging controversy revolves around Army's alleged tapping of some sensitive phones in the national Capital through misuse of listening devices and "off-the-air interceptors'', especially during the recent tussle between the defence ministry and Gen Singh over the latter's date of birth.
The Army HQ has directly accused a former director general of Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lt-Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, and some other ``disgruntled'' serving and retired military intelligence officers of ``fabricating the fiction'' that a covert Army unit had spied on MoD officials during the prolonged stand-off.
It even accused Lt-Gen Tejinder Singh of offering bribes on behalf of a foreign military vehicle supplier that has a tie-up with a defence PSU. The retired DIA chief has dismissed the charges as ``ridiculous'' and even threatened to take the Army chief to court to clear his name.
This is just the latest in the unseemly controversies dogging the Army, which even saw Gen V K Singh drag the government to court over his age in the first-ever such move by a military chief. Apart from the Army itself being divided down the ranks, the controversies have sharpened the civil-military divide in South Block even further.Internal differences in Army units are aggravating the situation and adversaries are making one another scapegoat which is making everybody demented.