Days before Union minister General V K Singh retired as the army chief, dozens of documents on a military intelligence unit that he had created and whose activities and funding had attracted widespread scrutiny were destroyed.  

According to documents perused by The Hindu, between May 22 and May 25, 2012, the Southern Army Command based in Pune moved very quickly to assemble two different boards of officers to carry out the complete destruction of all documents in its custody on Technical Services Division -- the controversial military intelligence unit Gen Singh had set up in 2010.

He retired on May 31, 2012 and later joined the BJP, and is now Minister of State for External Affairs in the Narendra Modi government.

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