General Vijay Kumar Singh, who took over the reins of the Indian Army 24 months ago, will hang up his boots on May 31 after completing a tenure which saw the military-civil conflict spiral to a new high when the Army Chief dragged the government to the Supreme Court over the controversy over his date of birth. General Singh, who took over as the Chief of Army Staff on March...
07:20 AM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Sacked army officer Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash has said that he will challenge Army Chief General VK Singh's decision to dismiss him from the service after he was found guilty by an Army court in the Sukna land scam case. "I am going to take recourse and challengE the Army Chief's order. General VK Singh has been interested in this case right from the beginning. This is against...
02:23 PM, May 29, 2012
Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash is the senior-most officer to be court-martialled ever, in one of the worst scams to have hit the Indian Army. ...
10:23 PM, Dec 03, 2011
New Delhi: An army court on Friday stuck to its earlier finding and pronounced that former 33 Corps commander Lt Gen PK Rath was not guilty of the charge of intent to defraud the army in the Sukna land scam in West Bengal. The General Court Martial in Shillong says the charge of intent to fraud cant be made out against him. Lt Gen Rath was given a sentence of...
05:21 PM, Jul 15, 2011
New Delhi: The General Court Martial (GCM) of Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash, indicted in Sukna land scam, will now take place in Guwahati instead of Manipur following his plea and the Armed Forces Tribunal has asked the Army to fix a new date for the trial, which was scheduled to start on June 15. The decision came after the Army agreed to shift the court martial proceedings from Leimakhong in...
04:16 PM, Jun 10, 2011
New Delhi: An Army court on Saturday ordered two years loss of seniority, 15 years loss of service for pension benefits and severe reprimand for Lt General PK Rath after finding him guilty in Sukna land scam. The order is subject to confirmation by the Defence Ministry. For the first time in the history of Indian Army a serving Lieutenant General has been found guilt in a scam. In an...
06:37 PM, Jan 22, 2011
Lt Gen PK Rath goes down in history as the first serving Lieutenant General to be convicted. ...
09:31 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: For the first time in the history of Indian Army a serving Lieutenant General has been found guilt in a scam. In an unprecedented court-martial of a high-ranking serving officer, Lt General PK Rath was found guilty on three counts in the Sukna land scam case on Friday. Lt Gen Rath was found guilty after a General Court Martial proceeding, headed by Presiding officer Lt Gen IJ Singh,...
03:41 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: Former 33 Corps Commander Lt Gen P K Rath to be court-martialed in the Sukna land scam case, say defence sources. Rath is accused of giving no-objection certificate to a private builder for constructing an educational institute on a land belonging to Indian Army in Sukna, West Bengal. Along Rath, Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash is also accused of involvement in the land scam. The 70-acre area of land...
05:06 PM, Aug 20, 2010
The Army initiated the summary of evidence against him at the Eastern Command headquarters in Kolkata from Tuesday. ...
09:42 AM, Jun 30, 2010
Retd Lt Gen alleges that South Block was responsible for selective leaks to media in Sukna land scam case. ...
03:17 PM, Jun 05, 2010
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN Avadesh Prakash has asked for a thorough probe against leaks against him. ...
04:52 PM, Jun 04, 2010
New Delhi: The Armed Forces Tribunal on Friday turned down former military secretary Lt Gen (retired) Avdesh Prakash's plea to allow his realtor friend as a witness in the reconvened Court of Inquiry (CoI) in the Sukna land scam case. "Calling prosecution witness as defence witness is uncalled for. Prosecution witness cannot be juxtaposed as defence witness," the Tribunal bench headed by Justice S S Kulshreshtha said. Lt Gen Prakash,...
12:15 PM, Jun 04, 2010
The Supreme Court bench asked the retired army officer to submit himself to the inquiry to prove his innocence. ...
04:04 PM, Apr 09, 2010
The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice Balakrishnan. ...
05:42 PM, Mar 16, 2010
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