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Army to try three for dumping Kargil arms
The ammunition was found in the riverbed, three years after the 4/8 Gorkha Regiment had moved into the icy battlefield.
CHANDIGARH: The Army on Tuesday started court martial proceedings against two colonels and a junior commissioned officer charged with dumping into the Indus river ammunition worth Rs 20 lakhs meant for the Kargil front.
The ammunition was found in the riverbed on August 20, 2005, three years after the 4/8 Gorkha Regiment had moved into the icy battlefield.
The General Court Martial was convened by 8 Mountain Division General Officer Commanding.
Brigadier V V Raghavan presided over the 7-member GCM trying Gorkha Regiment commanding officer Col Vishal Bharghav, his deputy Col Hemant Saroch and the unit’s ammunition JCO Subedar T B Thapa on charges of dumping ammunition boxes in the river. The charge is that they dumped the ammo into the river so that they could balance their inventory balance sheets and not show excess ordnance in their possession.
Retired JAG department officer Col S K Aggarwal, picked to defend the accused officers and the JCO, says that he would argue that the ammunition boxes were never in their possession and that it could have fallen into the river when they were air dropped.
The ammunition was found in the riverbed on August 20, 2005, three years after the 4/8 Gorkha Regiment had moved into the icy battlefield.
Brigadier V V Raghavan presided over the 7-member GCM trying Gorkha Regiment commanding officer Col Vishal Bharghav, his deputy Col Hemant Saroch and the unit’s ammunition JCO Subedar T B Thapa on charges of dumping ammunition boxes in the river. The charge is that they dumped the ammo into the river so that they could balance their inventory balance sheets and not show excess ordnance in their possession.
Retired JAG department officer Col S K Aggarwal, picked to defend the accused officers and the JCO, says that he would argue that the ammunition boxes were never in their possession and that it could have fallen into the river when they were air dropped.
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