Anindita Dasgupta

Less than a fortnight after Squadron Leader Anindita Dasgupta killed herself, yet another air force official committed suicide at the Jodhpur air base on Sunday.

The military has been asked by the Armed Forces Tribunal to take a more lenient view of extramarital affairs and not award punishment as harsh as dismissal from service in such cases.

Nearly four years after the suicide of Squadron Leader Anindita Dasgupta, the Armed Forces Tribunal's Kolkata bench has asked the Indian Air Force (IAF) to consider and convert Flight Lieutenant Ishan Sharan's sentence as 'dismissed from service' into 'released from service'.

More than three years after Flt Lt Ishan Sharan of the Indian Air Force (IAF) was dismissed from service for an affair with a fellow officer and wife of a senior pilot, the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT), Kolkata, found faults with the proceedings of the Court of Inquiry (CoI) and directed that his ‘dismissal from service’ be converted into ‘release from service’.