Col Singh Wore Silence

Jodhpur, July 27: Colonel K.D. Singh, the Commanding Officer of the 5/5 Gorkha Rifles during its Siachen tenure, today wore silence about the number of enemy personnel killed by his battalion.

The figure claimed by Col. Singh during his statement at the recording of the Summary of Evidence (SoE), is now under scan. For last two days, Major Surinder Singh the accused in this case is trying to establish that Col. Singh has stated false figure in his reports to the higher headquarters and also in his statement at the SoE.

Today, at the evening session of SoE, Major Singh himself perused and complied the figures related to the enemy killed, injured, probably killed, bunkers and weapons destroyed or damaged by the 5/5 GR.After compiling the data, Major Singh asked Col. Singh to go through all the Situation Reports of the battalion once again in order to satisfy himself about the figure of kills and damages.

“It is not binding on me to peruse these documents. I am going to answer your questions according to best of my memory,” replied Col. Singh.After this the Major asked Col. Singh to tell the number of enemy personnel killed by the battalion during the period of October 7 to October 31, 2003 while including one Situation Report produced at SoE on Monday.

Col. Singh declined to tell the number of killed enemy persons and said that the SRs are there at SoE and Major Singh himself can peruse them for the desired answer. Major Singh complained Brigadier Philip Campose the Recording Officer, SoE that Col. Singh is not answering ‘important’ questions.