In a stunning development recorded before the Delhi High Court, the Indian Army has formally contradicted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by declaring the latter’s investigation report incomplete and returning it for “supplementary investigation” — about four years after registering an FIR against Ex GC Inderjeet Singh in an alleged recruitment bribery case.
The admission came through an internal Army communication dated 11 February 2025, placed on record in W.P.(C) 16269/2023 before Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur. The letter from Additional Director General (Discipline & Vigilance), DV-4(A) to CBI reads:
“the CBI has established culpability in respect of the other officers citing the petitioner in its investigation report, however, the CBI has neither exonerated nor implicated the petitioner; in fact, there is no report given as far as the petitioner is concerned.”
In plain words: despite a full CBI probe, there is zero finding — neither incriminating nor exonerating — against Ex-GC Inderjeet Singh. Yet the Army has refused to accept the report as final and has sent it back demanding a fresh supplementary probe.
On the Other Hand, CBI has filed a Affidavit in Delhi High Court stating, they have Nothing against the Petitioner and He is dropped of all charges, Further it brings out that Army has placed his name in the FIR, without any Valid Evidence. It also Stated in the Court that, No one has named Ex GC Inderjit even during Army’s Own internal Probe, Thus raising Questions on How Army Placed his name in the FIR.
The original FIR was registered by CBI in March 2021 on the basis of an Army Intelligence Report, which seems to have misplaced allegations against the Petitioner. Legal observers call this a textbook case of institutional buck-passing: the Army Removed the petitioner from Training in 2021 citing the CBI FIR and it brands CBI Report as “incomplete” in 2025.
The episode raises serious questions about coordination (or lack thereof) between India’s premier investigating agency and the armed forces when the career and liberty of a citizen hang in balance for nearly half a decade on an admittedly inconclusive probe.
