Re: [HumJanenge] "Who Else is the Beneficiary of CSD Liquor?"

more such action will clear the name of SERVICES from such similar frauds.

On 5/20/12, Col Thakur Singh <thakursinghk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> *"Who Else is the Beneficiary of CSD Liquor?"*
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> By Maj Gen Chander Nandwani (Veteran)
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> Way back in 1995, I was posted as Additional Director General of Supplies &
> Transport in Army Headquarters. Apart from my routine responsibilities, I
> was also given additional charge of managing Army Headquarters (AHQ)
> canteen, as its Chairman. It wasn't much of a prized post, since a retired
> Colonel appointed as the Canteen Manager with around 50 to 60 civilian
> employees working under him, was essentially accountable, for the
> day-to-day functioning of the canteen.
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> Soon after taking over the additional responsibility, I decided to pay a
> visit to the AHQ canteen during the lunch hour break to get a 'Feedback'
> from the employees with regard to their working conditions as also motivate
> them to provide better service to the customers. After patiently listening
> to their woes and giving 'on-the-spot' decisions to improve their working
> conditions, I made a remark that while being posted at Delhi on three
> earlier occasions, I had never patronized AHQ canteen, as more often than
> not, all the attractive consumer items including popular brands of liquor
> were seldom accessible to the customers. Therefore, my area of focus would
> be to strictly monitor the indenting and sale of such items. For this
> purpose, computers would be installed in the canteen and sale of liquor
> strictly regulated through issue of new cards after due verification of the
> cardholders. Further, the existing liquor cards in use would be
> discontinued straightaway and destroyed.
>
> The next day, all hell was let loose against me. Big posters were pasted at
> every nook and corner of Sena Bhawan and South Block, making serious
> allegations against me. Radhe Shyam (name changed), a labourer and the
> union leader of AHQ Canteen civilian employees, having three buses and two
> flats in Delhi, threatened that there would be 'Mass Joint Self Immolation'
> by all employees at Jantar Mantar on the Republic Day (due after 10 days or
> so), if Maj Gen Chander Nandwani was not immediately removed from the post
> of Chairman of the canteen. News items on similar lines were also published
> in the reputed national dailies. The allegations made against me included
> taking of a big bribe for purchase new computers, favouring purchase of
> specific liquor brands, coercing women employees for sexual favours and so
> on. I was particularly tickled by the allegation of sexual favours and
> cheekily informed my wife that surely my standing in this regard was now
> far better than what she had imagined during past several years of our
> married life!!!
>
> I was immediately summoned by the Quarter Master General (QMG), under whom
> the canteen functioned, and was asked to brief him on this sudden turn of
> events when everything was going on so smoothly before I took over the
> charge of the AHQ canteen. I requested for a couple of days time to make
> discreet enquiries. Before I could say 'Jack Robinson', there was a note
> from the MOD signed by a Director level officer asking the Chief of Army
> Staff (COAS) to comment on the allegations made against me and take all
> possible measures, including removing me from the post of Chairman, to
> avoid any embarrassment to the Govt., should the threat of 'Mass
> Self-Immolation' materialize, just prior to the Republic Day. What a joke!
> The matter did not end there. This note from MOD was followed by another
> note through which, a memorandum signed by 13 MPs and addressed to the
> Defence Minister, was also forwarded to the COAS, urging him to remove me
> from the post. This raised the hackles of the then COAS, late General BC
> Joshi. He called the QMG to his office and asked him to take the matter
> very seriously and put up a draft reply to both the notes of the MOD, for
> his approval. In the meanwhile an interim reply was sent to the MOD that
> the matter was being investigated.
>
> My preliminary investigations revealed that a perfect nexus existed between
> the canteen civilian staff union leader Radhe Shyam, a few officials of MOD
> and a large number of politicians, to whom liquor was being supplied from
> AHQ canteen, on a regular basis. Of course the demand increased manifold
> during the time of elections. What intrigued me the most was the 'modus
> operandi' of smuggling out of such large quantities of liquor, with the
> Military Police and several other security agencies working in the highly
> sensitive areas of Army Headquarters and MOD. The actuality came to light
> when a disgruntled ex civilian employee of the canteen spilled the beans to
> me on promise of strict anonymity. I was shaken out of my bones when the
> truth came to light and immediately ran to the office of QMG to give him
> the details. He dis-believed me and decided to get the facts verified
> through a field security agency of the army and learnt to his horror that
> what I had disclosed to him was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but
> the truth.
>
> Well this is how the system worked. The union leader had in his custody
> hundreds of old liquor cards of servicemen and/or ex-servicemen who had
> either left the station or had died. He drew choicest brands of liquor from
> the canteen in the names of these personnel and had simultaneously
> perfected a distribution system through which the liquor was delivered
> right at the doorsteps of the selected MOD officials and several
> politicians apart from other influential clients in the ministry.
> Surprisingly, right next to the AHQ canteen was the parking lot of VIP
> staff cars and some of these staff car drivers had been bought over by
> Radhe Shyam by giving them free bottles of rum and other lucrative canteen
> items such as expensive watches etc. During the lunch break when security
> was lax, these drivers would reverse their cars next to the canteen bulk
> store, wherefrom crates of liquor were loaded into the dickey of these
> staff cars. Radhe Shyam instructed these drivers to deliver the liquor
> crates at various locations after dropping the VIPs at their respective
> residences. Wow what an ingenuous idea! The irony of the matter is that the
> staff cars with the flags & star plates of Generals, Admirals and Air
> Marshals (including the QMG), without the knowledge of the occupants, were
> being illegitimately used by unscrupulous individuals for their unholy
> deeds. Sadly these very senior officers had unknowingly become couriers of
> liquor for the politicians. No wonder there was such a sharp reaction from
> all quarters, when I had only hinted at introducing computers to check the
> sale of liquor from the AHQ canteen!
>
> The Chief on being informed of the facts of the case directed the QMG to
> give me full protection and total support to cleanse the system. I obtained
> legal advice from a leading civilian lawyer. He advised me to request for
> an enquiry against myself since I had taken over the post barely 10 days
> earlier and had nothing to hide. Thereafter, on my specific request on
> file, a court of inquiry was ordered by the QMG to investigate into the
> allegations made by Radhe Shyam, which were supported by the MOD and the
> MPs. The court of Inquiry proved these allegations to be false, baseless
> and malicious with the sole aim of having me removed from the post due to
> ulterior motives. To avoid several heads from rolling, the MOD and the MPs
> were politely told by the then COAS verbally that the matter had been
> thoroughly investigated by a high-powered court of Inquiry, which had
> opined that there was no truth in the allegations made by the union leader.
> Hence the matter was not being pursued further to save all concerned from
> grave embarrassment.
>
> On directions of the QMG, the services of the union leader were terminated
> under my signatures and the whole system revamped with the introduction of
> computers, thus bringing to an end the sordid drama of "The Canteen Liquor
> Connection of MOD!"**
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> My only regret still remains that the allegation of my so-called sexual
> exploits with women employees was also quashed in the bargain, thus proving
> the obvious!!!
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> Have a Happy and Wonderful Day.
> == Subramanyam
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