The Armed Forces Tribunal today turned down former Military Secretary Lt Gen Avdesh Prakash's plea to allow his realtor friend as a witness in the reconvened Court of Inquiry in the Sukna land scam case. The Tribunal bench headed by Justice S S Kulshreshtha said in New Delhi that Prosecution witness cannot be juxtaposed as defence witness. Lt Gen Prakash, who has been indicted by a Court of Inquiry in the Sukna land scam, had approached the Tribunal on Wednesday to allow him to produce the witnesses before the reconvened Court in the case. Prakash had filed a plea seeking permission to produce as witness his realtor friend Dilip Agarwal, who is alleged to have benefited by the 'No Objection Certificate' issued by the Army for construction of an educational institute on a piece of land adjacent to the Sukna Base in West Bengal.<br/> The Army counsel had opposed the petition, saying that Agarwal had already appeared before the Court of Inquiry and could not be produced as a defence witness again.<br/>