Army Chief had suspected media mischief

"Even, let us say one of our corps or divisions or brigades does exercise, somebody will say, oh! they did exercise. It was not an exercise, they wanted to do something else. Now you will make a story out of it. There are lots of people who want to make stories these days for various nefarious aims, if I can put it like that," he had told `The Week` magazine during the interview on March 13.

The Army Chief lamented that today bad news is good news for a journalist while good news is no news, a normal thing. He also said that "if somebody has got any doubt, they should come and face us. They won`t because they know they are wrong". In that interview with the magazine he had also said that Army was doing a professional job but there were people both uniformed and not in uniform, some civil servants, who had their own axis to grind. They start feeding all kinds of wrong things, he said.

"So, you tell him (journalist) something juicy, it comes on front page and nobody even looks whether there is any truth in it. It is already done. So, you have already thrown muck on somebody. There are lots of people who are doing that and I don`t know what their motives are," Gen Singh had said.