Army authorities have denied allegations of torture and foul play in the death of Subedar Major Rajendra Singh Shekhawat who died at a military hospital in New Delhi on July 5.
The junior commissioned officer’s (JCO) family had made the allegations in a complaint registered with the Delhi Cantt police station after his death. Shekhawat was cremated on July 7 in Jaipur where his family resides. The JCO’s son, Pushpendra Singh, had told reporters here that his father was allegedly tortured as he was to about expose certain frauds by senior officers and corruption in the Army recruitments.
In an official statement released on Friday, the Army authorities said, “The JCO was guilty of misusing his official position as a head clerk for falsifying personal documents in order to obtain pecuniary gains for an honorary commission. Accordingly, the JCO was attached for disciplinary proceedings.”
The Army authorities added that Shekhawat had also absented himself from leave for which he was facing a Court of Inquiry.
On July 2, the JCO suffered a stroke and suddenly took ill, while he was attached in the CVD (Central Vehicle Depot) Delhi Cantt for the Court of Inquiry and he was rushed to the Base Hospital, Delhi Cantt, but despite prompt medical attention he expired, the Army authorities said.
“The post mortem report indicates the cause of death as ‘stroke right middle cerebral right tertiary infraction’,” the Army statement read.
The Army authorities have stated that the allegations of ill treatment of the JCO being made by his relatives were baseless, as “at no stage was the deceased ever subjected to mental harassment.” The authorities said the JCO suffered a heart attack when he was not in the custody of his unit, 14 Raj Rifiles.
-via The Times of India.
I agree. Most of the members of the COI have almost no knwledge of the Law and its procedures. There are very young officers also as members who are made members just to fill up the required strength. Even subalterns having 2-3 years service have been seen to be made members against junior personnel. They are made to sign on the reports of coi prepared by the President of the coi. Most of the reports are prejudiced as per the preconceived thoughts. A formality is completed as such. In my opinion people from judicial background should be members atleast upto 51% of the strength of the coi.
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This is clear trap of Army systems , No one will tell the truth and things will happened like this .Every body can understand due to the pressure from the his higher authorities it is happened .But no one can prove due to the set up of Army .And authority’s do not wants to have change , because of they are afraid of things will go against them, and future will be tougher time for them .
what is the absent with out leave ? it is happening every where, in some civil organization you have to put leave before your retirement and settle the issue , and it will be settled , if one sub Major ,who put 33 to 35 years of service in clerical post not knowing seriousness of the AWL?. here, he is having some problem with his higher authority’s so small /every thing will be a big issue .Poor man lost his life , who got lost , that poor families , their kids etc.
Army authority’s will tell that , one court of inquiry is ordered to know the how the JCO got absented without leave from ————– to this date , and how the systems in Base hospital is worked slowly etc .And after 3 to 6 months that report will submitted to their co , that some kind of excuses and some kind of recommendation, findings etc .Co will for word that findings to next higher authorities. Then all formalities are over .They will never allow the civil authorities to do investigations , no court can do anything .what a great .
Thank God they did not made as suicide case or psychiatric cases .
We can fell the colonial approach to the men in this system .
Let the case be investigated by Crime Branch. A poor JCO could not have fought against the high profile army officers/ units, and it is possible that he might have been framed.
once again a jawan killed murder charge should be filed against the culprits after serving as a JCO no reason he was absent over leave those autorities made him to do so posmarem karne wale ,court of inquiry karne wale, sab ek gang hai jo desh ko security ke naam par thag rahi hai bhagwan inse bachaye mere desh ko
i fully agree with you these COI by army are total fraud. everything is dictated by the boss himself to every officer of the COI.