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Indian Army Admits Involvement of Its 72 Officers in Illegal Arms Selling Racket
New Delhi (ABC Live): Indian army on Friday has admitted that its 72 officers, including a serving Colonel and three Lt Colonels were involved in an illegal arms selling racket on sensitive international borders.
New Delhi (ABC Live): Indian army on Friday has admitted that its 72 officers, including a serving Colonel and three Lt Colonels were involved in an illegal arms selling racket on sensitive international borders.
The admission to this effect was made by Indian Army in a status report submitted in a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar in Public Interest Litigation filed by advocate Arvind Kumar Sharma.
As per information placed before Supreme Court of India, 72 Indian army officers including a serving Colonel and three Lt Colonels, serving in sensitive border districts of Rajasthan and in the Indian Army Training Team (IMTRAT) at Bhutan were found involved in an illegal arms selling racket.
Further Filed Indian Army Report says that the 72 named officers sold both prohibited and non-prohibited bore to dealers and private persons by violating the Army Act and Customs Act.
Following is the list of Officers who had sold their weapons and the violations:
Col Neeraj Rana (5 weapons of Army officers)
Lt Col V S Rathore (17 weapons of Army officers including his weapon)
Lt Col S S Rathore (5 weapons of Army officers including his own)
Lt Col B S Shekhawat (11 weapons of Army officers).
Forty-five officers and one JCO had sold their NSP weapons without taking sanction of competent authority in violation of SAO 1/S/96 and the Arms Act, 1959.
Twenty-five officers of the Indian Army Training Team Bhutan had imported ammunition in excess of sanction order.
35 serving officers, one JCO and 10 retired officers were asked to deposit back their NSPs with the Central Ordnance Depot, Jabalpur but only four officers had deposited their weapons.
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