Srinagar
\nThe Army has shifted Major Leetul Gogoi, who was at the centre of the \u2018human shield\u2019 controversy, out of his unit and attached to local formation headquarters after being indicted by an Army Court of Inquiry for \u201cfraternising\u201d with a local woman in Srinagar, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Last month, the CoI instituted by the army indicted Gogoi, an officer with 53 Rashtriya Rifles a specialised anti-militancy force for Jammu and Kashmir, on two counts\u201cfraternising\u201d with a local in spite of instructions to the contrary and \u201cbeing away from the place of duty while in operational area\u201d. It recommended Summary of Evidence against him, a step before court martial proceedings are initiated.<\/p>\n
The officer, whose decision to tie a civilian to the bonnet of his vehicle in Kashmir on April 9 last year as a shield against stone-pelting by a mob had kicked up a huge controversy, will now face Summary of Evidence, a process similar to framing of charges. The process is likely to take three months.<\/p>\n
Based on the Summary of Evidence to be compiled by \u201ccompetent authorities\u201d, the Army is likely to decide further action in the case which may include General Court Martial or Summary General Court Martial . The GCM is like a full court whereas the proceedings in SGCM are conducted in a much shorter time span and cases are disposed of quickly.<\/p>\n
Gogoi, who was commissioned as a lieutenant in December 2008, was detained by Jammu and Kashmir police on May 23 following an altercation at a hotel in Srinagar where he was allegedly trying to enter with an 18-year-old woman.<\/p>\n
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat had supported the young officer\u2019s action and honoured him with the Army chief\u2019s \u2018Commendation Card\u2019 for his \u2018sustained efforts\u2019 in counter-insurgency operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar The Army has shifted Major Leetul Gogoi, who was at the centre of the \u2018human shield\u2019 controversy, out of his unit and attached to local formation headquarters after being indicted by an Army Court of Inquiry for \u201cfraternising\u201d with a local woman in Srinagar, officials said on Tuesday. Last month, the CoI instituted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42506,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions\/42506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}