{"id":42515,"date":"2016-12-12T03:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T03:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=42515"},"modified":"2016-12-12T03:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T03:18:14","slug":"tata-group-linked-chopper-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/tata-group-linked-chopper-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Group is linked to Chopper scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ousted Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry has created a stir in his battle with the Tatas after he linked one of its directors – Vijay Singh – to the VVIP chopper scam, a charge vehemently denied by the latter.<\/p>\n

Mr Mistry, who is locked in a boardroom tussle with the Tatas, alleged that Mr Singh had a role in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, claiming that it happened when he was the Defence Secretary in 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Tata<\/p>\n

“As Defence Secretary, Mr Singh was a key official involved in awarding of the Rs. 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter contract to AugustaWestland in 2010,” Mr Mistry’s office said in a statement in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

Mr Singh, however, rejected the charge, saying the deal was approved by the Union Cabinet well after he had retired from government service.
\n“I was defence secretary from 2007-2009 and the present cases being prosecuted by CBI pertain to 2004-2005. The AugustaWestland acquisition was approved by the Cabinet well after my retirement,” Mr Singh said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

\"Tata<\/p>\n

“To connect me with this matter is slanderous and malicious,” Mr Singh, an independent director on Tata Sons board, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ousted Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry has created a stir in his battle with the Tatas after he linked one of its directors – Vijay Singh – to the VVIP chopper scam, a charge vehemently denied by the latter. Mr Mistry, who is locked in a boardroom tussle with the Tatas, alleged that Mr Singh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[11308,20106,12121,20103,11942,20102,20104,20105],"class_list":["post-42515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-cyrus-mistry","tag-defence-secretary","tag-mistry","tag-ousted-tata-group-chairman","tag-tata","tag-tata-group-is-linked-to-chopper-scam","tag-vijay-singh","tag-vvip-chopper-scam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Tata-Group-is-linked-to-Chopper-scam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}