2011 court martial held Lt General PK Rath guilty
- 5 years ago
A military tribunal on Friday quashed the court martial of Lt. Gen. P.K. Rath, former 33 Corps Commander, in the Sukna land scam.
The scam became public in mid-2008 when the former Army chief, Gen. V.K. Singh, was the chief of the Eastern Army Command and had initiated the court of inquiry.
The tribunal imposed a fine of Rs. 1 lakh on the Army for “loss of honour” in the case in which Lt. Gen. P.K. Rath became the first serving three-star rank officer to face disciplinary action.
In 2011, a court martial found him guilty in the alleged scam for issuing a no-objection certificate to a private builder for building an educational institution on a 70-acre plot adjacent to the military cantonment in Sukna in West Bengal.
Lt. Gen. Rath and Lt. Gen. Avdesh Prakash had faced court martial in the case, but the former was the first to have been punished.
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The scam became public in mid-2008 when the former Army chief, Gen. V.K. Singh, was the chief of the Eastern Army Command and had initiated the court of inquiry.
The tribunal imposed a fine of Rs. 1 lakh on the Army for “loss of honour” in the case in which Lt. Gen. P.K. Rath became the first serving three-star rank officer to face disciplinary action.
In 2011, a court martial found him guilty in the alleged scam for issuing a no-objection certificate to a private builder for building an educational institution on a 70-acre plot adjacent to the military cantonment in Sukna in West Bengal.
Lt. Gen. Rath and Lt. Gen. Avdesh Prakash had faced court martial in the case, but the former was the first to have been punished.
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