{"id":61644,"date":"2019-05-19T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61644"},"modified":"2019-05-19T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:51:19","slug":"mod-rejects-bimal-vermas-petition-challenging-appointment-of-navy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mod-rejects-bimal-vermas-petition-challenging-appointment-of-navy-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"MoD rejects Bimal Verma\u2019s petition challenging appointment of Navy Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The  Ministry of Defence\u00a0 today rejected Vice Admiral Bimal Verma\u2019s petition  challenging the appointment of Vice Admiral Karambir Singh as the next  Navy Chief, overlooking his seniority.In its order, the defence ministry  said the appointment was made considering all laid-down norms,  asserting that seniority can\u2019t be the only criterion for the selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n defence ministry said a robust selection procedure was followed for \nselecting the next Navy Chief and that the petitioner was found \nunsuitable for the top post.Verma, the senior-most naval commander, had \nmoved the Armed Forces Tribunal last month after the defence ministry \ndid not respond to his statutory complaint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verma had moved a \nmilitary tribunal questioning Vice Admiral Singh\u2019s appointment and the \ntribunal on April 26 gave three weeks to the ministry to decide on \nVerma\u2019s petition.Verma is at present serving as Commander-in-Chief of \nthe Andaman and Nicobar Command. In his petition, Verma wondered why he \nwas overlooked for the top post.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Defence\u00a0 today rejected Vice Admiral Bimal Verma\u2019s petition challenging the appointment of Vice Admiral Karambir Singh as the next Navy Chief, overlooking his seniority.In its order, the defence ministry said the appointment was made considering all laid-down norms, asserting that seniority can\u2019t be the only criterion for the selection. The defence ministry [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61644","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=61644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61646,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61644\/revisions\/61646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}