Slamming the Court of Inquiry’s conduct towards former Military Secretary Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash in the Sukna land scandal as unfair, the Armed Forces Tribunal on Monday directed the government to re-convene the inquiry process to give Prakash an opportunity to examine six principal witnesses.
The entire process is to be completed within two months.
“After completion of the Court of Inquiry, it will be open for the Court of Inquiry to give its finding on the petitioner (Prakash). The authorities will be free to decide the fate of the case, that is, whether to send it or not for court martial,” the tribunal’s Principal Bench of Justice A K Mathur and Lt-Gen S S Dhillon said in their judgment today.
This did not prevent the tribunal from passing scathing remarks about the manner in which the CoI was held.
“This was not a fair trial,” the bench said. “In the present case, the manner in which this Court of Inquiry had been held looks little strange that some witnesses appeared before the Court of Inquiry and gave their statements. Then these witnesses came again and deposed something more, which was not in their main statements. This kind of rumbling carries on, witnesses were coming and going,” the bench observed.
Source : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sukna-probe-unfair-mockery-of-justice/582855/
The entire process is to be completed within two months.
“After completion of the Court of Inquiry, it will be open for the Court of Inquiry to give its finding on the petitioner (Prakash). The authorities will be free to decide the fate of the case, that is, whether to send it or not for court martial,” the tribunal’s Principal Bench of Justice A K Mathur and Lt-Gen S S Dhillon said in their judgment today.
This did not prevent the tribunal from passing scathing remarks about the manner in which the CoI was held.
“This was not a fair trial,” the bench said. “In the present case, the manner in which this Court of Inquiry had been held looks little strange that some witnesses appeared before the Court of Inquiry and gave their statements. Then these witnesses came again and deposed something more, which was not in their main statements. This kind of rumbling carries on, witnesses were coming and going,” the bench observed.
Source : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sukna-probe-unfair-mockery-of-justice/582855/
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