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Probe into Kargil document issue planned

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 10. The authorities are contemplating a probe into the issue of the former Defence Minister, George Fernandes, displaying in public an internal report of the Army on the Kargil conflict, which they claimed is a classified secret document.

The Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, had taken strong exception to Mr. Fernandes using the report to buttress his point to presspersons. Official sources wondered how a Minister could get hold of classified papers after the announcement of general elections and a directive from the Cabinet Secretary that no fresh document be shown to any Minister.

Mr. Mukherjee had said that the report was not a ``souvenir.'' It was a classified document that should have been returned once Mr. Fernandes ceased to be a Minister.

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