"Top level officers are role models and have to set an example. They have thus a greater responsibility to check wrongdoing. "An Army chief is expected to maintain the highest standards of rectitude and correct behaviour as a role model for all the officers in the service. "Attention in the Adarsh scam so far has centred on the wrongdoings and irregularities by the politicians and bureaucrats concerned with the approval process who exploited their position to become beneficiaries of ACHS. As we have found, perhaps as great a role was played by the military and Defence Estates Officers involved," it says.

Source: Times of India July 08, 2017 21:06 UTC