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| Five big facts about Army Chief .. |
| Five big facts about Army Chief vs Government
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| INDIA
, 3-February-2012
2:39:38 AM |
| The Supreme Court has questioned the manner in which the government handled the issue of Army chief General V K Singh's age. The court has fixed the next hearing for February 10. We look at five new developments.
1. What Supreme Court said today: The Supreme Court has questioned the manner in which General Singh's complaint about his age was rejected by the Defence Ministry on December 30 last year. The court, which was hearing a petition by General Singh, asked the government whether it would withdraw this order since the decision-making process in rejecting the complaint was vitiated.
2. Attorney General's role: The court referred to the Attorney General's role in the matter and wanted to know how an officer who gave an opinion against the Army Chief on the issue of his age could also be involved in the process to decide on his statutory complaint on the issue. The court said that there was no independent evaluation of General Singh's complaint and pointed out that the same legal authority had given his opinion in both the instances.
3. What the SC is to decide: General VK Singh says he was born on May 10, 1951; the government says it has to go by documents that list his date of birth as May 10, 1950. General Singh's records within the Army show both dates. The General says he has tried several times to have the date corrected. But his requests were turned down, prompting him to move court against the government, the first time a serving Army chief has done so. Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing, the government had instructed the Army to correct all its records to uniformly reflect 1950 as General Singh's year of birth. If the Supreme Court were to accept 1951 as his date of birth, he would be eligible for another year as the head of the Army.
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