India, Feb. 11 -- Eight days after his unpublished memoir Four Stars of Destiny triggered a political firestorm that is still raging, former army chief General (retired) Manoj Mukund Naravane on Tuesday broke his silence on the controversial autobiography and endorsed his publisher's stand that the book was not published and no copies were "published, distributed, sold or otherwise made available to the public" either in print or digital form.

"This is the status of the book," he wrote on X, quoting a statement posted by Penguin Random House India on the social media platform on Monday. The post by the publishing house came hours after Delhi Police registered an FIR and launched a probe into the alleged illegal circulation of the manuscr...