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CBI books 3 in coffin scam
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 7
The CBI has registered a case in the coffin scam, during the tenure of Mr George Fernandes as Defence Minister ,against three senior Army officials and a US-based funeral service company for allegedly supplying poor quality aluminum caskets at “exhorbitant rates” after the Kargil war.

The agency filed a criminal case against the then military attache in the Indian Embassy in the US, retired Major-Gen Arun Roye, Director of Master General Ordnance (MGO) Col S K Malik, and Joint Director MGO Col Fateh Bahadur Singh and the American vendor Buritrol and Baiza, the CBI said in a press statement.