A joint secretary-rank officer in the Indian Cabinet Secretariat has been found guilty of leaking Army Chief General VK Singh’s letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the poor state of preparedness of the Indian army. A probe into the leakage by the Prime Minister’s Office has cleared General Singh of any wrongdoing in the episode. In his letter, the army chief had highlighted the critical shortage of equipment and ammunition in artillery and armoured regiments. The female officer belonging to the Indian Economic Service (IES) was handling the charge of intelligence agencies under the Cabinet Secretariat and was nailed after interrogation of some suspected persons, media reports said. The officer has now been repatriated to her parent cadre and further action can be taken against her for leaking such a sensitive document, the reports added. After the letter surfaced, both the Houses of Parliament were rocked over the issue and certain parties had demanded action against Gen Singh also.
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