Gen Avadesh Prakash
Former military secretary Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash was on Saturday found guilty on three counts by an Army court here in the Sukna land scam case following which he was dismissed from service.
The dismissal means he will not get any benefits like pension.
However, the court gave Lt Gen Prakash, the senior-most Army officer to face court martial, benefit of doubt on the fourth count of committing a civil offence.
Prakash was held guilty of misusing his position under the Army Act section 45 (conduct unbecoming of his position as an officer) and section 52 (intent to defraud) by the General Court Martial at the 51 sub area of the army station at Narengi.
The court martial was conducted after Prakash was indicted by an Army court of inquiry early last year for his role in the illegal transfer of 71 acres of land adjacent to the Sukna military station near Siliguri in West Bengal to a private realtor for constructing an educational institution in 2008. He is the third Lt Gen rank officer to have been punished in a case related to corruption. Lt Gen S K Sahni was cashiered from service for his role in the ration scam and Lt Gen P K Rath was given a punishment in the Sukna case earlier. While Prakash and Sahni were punished after their retirement from service, Rath is still serving in the army.
The scam dates back to 2008 when the alleged move to transfer the land in Siliguri district of West Bengal to a private educational trust came out in the open, leading to the Army initiating disciplinary proceedings against senior Army officials, including Prakash and Rath.
-via The Times of India.
God whats happenning in Defence Forces/Army, lnly Chatukars, yesmens, castesim and kickback givers are favored and merit takes the back seat, being one of the leading defenders of defence forces for last seven years with 100% result had led me high and dry even fighting for my petty dues, when the AFT was formed it was requeted to fetch High Court cases for AFT to have a meaning despite such being aginst the interest of my rother professionals, but when it came to be part of Panel of Counsels the Local JAGS prefferred noviceses, failures, corrupts and chatukars, Alas how could we believe that by gunning the Ex MS these JAGS doing justice with others, And for A 1 defence Land I have the Worst experience at hands of Offrs and still facing the consequenses for my attempt to do the right, barring few good men like a Stn Cmdr
GOOD.THE PUNISHMENT OF IMPRISONMENT SHOULD OF MIN THREE YEARS SHOULD ALSO BE ADDEDE
THERE ARE PLENTY OF SUCH SHARKS,WHO ARE ENJOYING LIFE & DO NOT ALLOW UP RIGHT OFFICER TO COME UP,WEED THEM OUT TO SPEEDILY & HAVE A CLEAN ARMY
What was the punishment meted out to Lt Gen Rath in the same case . How can he still be allowed to serve the Army? What About Maj General PC Sen ? Why was he allowed to retire on the quiet?There are several questions that have remained unanswered in this case.I am following a case where in the name of LANGAR to an adjacent Gurdwara which already has a very large under ground dining Hall cum so called Langar, a huge 1000 person capacity air conditioned Banquet Hall has come up on Defence A1 land without any sanction/approval from the competent authority, funded from money supposedly donated by the frequent visitor to the adjacent Gurdwara hence unaccounted for . According to the reply recd from the unit auth against my RTI query that huge banquet hall has been constructed by KARSEVA and no contractor employed . I have the reply in black & white available with me.
The case in point here that none has learn any lesson from Adarsh or Sukhna. The military generals are generals in their own right and let loose to any thing and everything that is against the staute.