New Delhi, December 09: A. K. Nanda has been censured by the army following a court of inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct with a junior officer’s wife while on an official visit to Israel in May this year held that he had acted against service decorum.
However, the inquiry could not conclusively establish the charges against Nanda, defence minister A. K. Antony stated in the Rajya Sabha.
However, it has been found the General- rank officer acted against service decorum, he said. On the other hand, the complainant ( a Colonel) had also tried to mislead the court ( of inquiry), he added.
Following the court of inquiry submitting its report to the army headquarters, army chief General V. K. Singh has administered reproof to both the officers under army regulations.
Reproof in army parlance ranges from a warning to censure as punishment and is an administrative action taken against officers found to have floundered the Army Act and Army Rules.
The wife of Colonel SPS Pasricha, who served under Nanda as his technical secretary, had complained to the army chief’s wife Bharti Singh that Nanda had visited her hotel room when her husband was away and misbehaved with her.
—-PTI