Former Army Chief Gen V K Singh and four top serving officers were today summoned as accused by a Delhi court which held that it has sufficient material to proceed against them in a criminal defamation case filed by Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh.

This is the first time that an ex-Army Chief and top-
ranking officers including the Vice Chief have been asked to appear before a court.

Besides Gen V K Singh, the other four named in the complaint and have been summoned are Vice Chief of Army Staff S K Singh, Lt Gen B S Thakur (DGMI), Major General S L Narshiman (Additional Director General of Public Information) and Lt Col Hitten Sawhney, accusing them of misusing their official positions, power and authority to level false charges against him.

The court directed them to appear before it on July 20.