MAIL TODAY: Indian Navy Officer's Moment Of Indiscretion

[sudhir007]

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[CONNAN]

Commodore Sukhjinder Singh is finished



As it stands by to decide the fate of Commodore Sukhjinder Singh - the officer who was caught in what appears to have been an elaborate honey trap in Russia - several troubling questions linger.

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The photo that has landed Commodore Sukhjinder Singh in deep trouble.
The questions, however, run the risk of being obscured by the scandalous episode that has embarrassed the service like nothing else in recent memory.

Through a high-level Board of Inquiry (BoI) that is still in progress, the navy, to its credit, has quickly established that Commodore Singh, a married man, had an illicit sexual relationship with a yet unnamed Russian woman sometime in 2005-07.

He was during that period posted as the head of the Indian observation group at Russia's 1059 Military Station in Severodvinsk, a port city in the north-western part of the country.

Then a Captain (equivalent to a Colonel in the army), Singh was heading a 25-member team of Indian personnel overseeing the repair and refit of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, rechristened as INS Vikramaditya.

A CD with highly explicit photographs of Singh and the mysterious Russian woman reached the Naval Headquarters last month, immediately kicking off an inquiry.

Headlines Today has accessed these photographs, which were proof enough for naval investigators that these pictures were not part of a sting operation but taken with the full consent of the officer in question.

The identity of the woman in the photographs has not yet been revealed. But the fact that private photographs of her and the officer reached the navy unsolicited points to the certainty of it being a honey-trap.

Sources say Commodore Singh, who could face the harshest possible punishment for "immoral conduct" and "conduct unbecoming of an officer", has testified to the BoI that the photographs were evidence of a "personal indiscretion" that took place in a moment of "very bad judgment". He has, however, insisted that they did not impinge in any way on the price negotiations for the Russian aircraft carrier. India recently acquiesced, after prolonged and sometimes unseemly negotiations, to cough up $2.33 billion for the warship instead of $974-million, as originally contracted in 2004.

The astonishing cost escalation sparked off a storm of criticism in Parliament and from the country's top auditor.

Commodore Singh's future in the navy may no longer be secure, but there are several questions still doing the rounds.

For starters, will the establishment use the episode to forever smother all uncomfortable questions about the controversial price negotiations for the warship? Second, could the episode have been propped up to preclude any potential investigation, say by the CBI, into the intricacies of the give- and- take that resulted in the price explosion? Finally, could this episode simply be a ploy to deflect all attention away from the possibility that there were political kickbacks at play in the deal?

 

[RobbieS]

Uncle fas gaya...Hun taa ghare vi pata lag jau....!

 

[sudhir007]

Uncle fas gaya...Hun taa ghare vi pata lag jau....!

Lekin saanu to fasa gaya. free free ke chakar me $2.3b dene pade or uncle ne ash ke.

 

[CONNAN]

2.5 billion dollars for 1 night sleep with russian chick maaaaaaaan thats dam expensive

 

[karan.1970]

It could also be a ploy to further delay the procurement of Admiral Gork...

 

[NAVY SEAL]

to me this very normal .but this man got caught,and the status he is at

 

[Break the Silence]

Hmm... nice article..
captain saab fas gaye gori kudi ke chakkar mein...
IMO its a work of Russian defence industry to get a good price for gorki..

 

[ARCHON]

Commodore Sukhjinder Singh is finished

LCA - Sukhoi dog fight??

 

[Break the Silence]

LCA - Sukhoi dog fight??

o man!! o man!! dogfight????
lca-sukhoi????
bechara lca(com. sukhjinder).

 

[CONNAN]

SINGH IS KING

 

[Break the Silence]

SINGH IS KING

now his SINGH status will be demolished by Indian Navy,..

 

[amoverlord]

bichare papaji fas gaye.................ab unka kya hoga???

 

[aimarraul]

who took this photo......

 

[AZAAD]

Is there any credible news that it's work of russian establishment and that he has really compromised indian position ? or he was just enjoying himself with her and its just a ploy to bring controversy and resulting delay in otherwise excellent weaponisation program of the navy. And bye the way who supplied the snaps..... cant be russians if they were really behind this ? What say?