New Delhi, January 22: A serving Lieutenant General of the Indian Army P K Rath has been court martialled after he was found guilty by an Army court in the Sukna land scam case.
Lt Gen Rath has been found guilty of issuing the no-objection certificate to the builder, signing an MoU and not informing the Command Headquarters.
Lt General Rath had given a no objection certificate (NOC) to a private developer to commercially develop a 71-acre land adjacent to the Sukna military station in Darjeeling in December 2009 district despite repeated objections by his own officers.
Rath overruled objections of other officers. He also issued the NOC without informing Eastern Command or Army Headquarters.
Lieutenant General Prakash, the then military secretary, had influenced Lt Gen Rath to issue a NOC to Dilip Aggarwal, the private builder who falsely claimed to be setting up an affiliate of the Mayo College in Sukna.
It was his chief of staff, the then Maj Gen (now a serving Lt. Gen and DG, Military Training) Ramesh Halgali who had complained to Eastern Army Command about the NOC.
Surprisingly, the then Chief of Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor censured Lieutenant General Ramesh Halgali and five other officers who blew the whistle the Sukna land scam.
–Agencies–