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In his plaint, Gen Ahluwalia said the news portal had defamed him by questioning the integrity earned by him during 36 years of service.
While tehelka allegedly represented him as an arms middleman, the general denied he handled or was on a post, which involved selection or purchase of imported weapons.
Ahluwalia said he had no special knowledge or relation with the introduction and import of new equipment.
The general said he was serving as additional director-general ordnance service (technical stores) since April 1999, overseeing the functioning of the central depot for technical stores and ammunition, and procurement of indigenous equipment primarily from ordnance factories and public sector undertakings.
He also referred to the army's court of inquiry where tehelka journalist Mathew Samuel, contrary to what was alleged in the portal's tapes, admitted that Gen Ahluwalia had refused his bribe offer of Rs 50,000. The journalist accepted that the officer never demanded Rs 100,000 or whiskey, something claimed in the tapes.
"I categorically say that I have not paid a single penny to the major general," the plaint quoted Samuel as deposing before the court of inquiry.
Gen Ahluwalia has named tehelka.com, its journalists Tarun Tejpal, Aniruddha Bahal and Samuel, besides Zee TV, its chairman Subhash Chandra and CEO Sandeep Goyal as respondents.
Gen Ahluwalia demanded that the portal should contradict the "false" claims it made in the March 13, 2001 defence deals expose about him.
The suit would come up for completion of pleadings before Delhi high court Joint Registrar and for arguments before Justice D K Jain.
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