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Army to continue to try its personnel for adultery
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- The Army will continue to try personnel for adultery and homosexuality under the provisions of the Army Act for “unbecoming conduct,” despite the Supreme Court decriminalising both, according to outgoing Adjutant General (AG) of the Army Lt. Gen. Ashwani Kumar.
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- AG is senior-most administrative officer, who looks after manpower planning and discipline, among others.
- Army has sent recommendations to Defence Ministry on:
(1) Rules for award of disability pension
(2) Capping the exemption limit.
- SC judgment is law of the land and is abiding:
(1) Army will not charge anyone on those provisions mentioned by the SC.
(2) Enough provisions in the Army Act to deal with it
- Reasons cited:
(1) Uniformed profession and moral turpitude and corruption have no place in Army
- Reasons for Rules on disability pension which caused protests from the veteran community,
(1) Cases of impropriety by some senior officers in maintaining their medical records, were given due punishment for the offence.
(2) He said 7080 officers retire every month, of whom about 35% are in low medical category. “Out of the 35%, nearly 5060% ultimately get disability pension.”
(3) Army headquarters was tweaking its rules to bring more checks and balances into the system.
(4) Not everyone with disability “should be exempted” from income tax and there should be an “upper limit” on tax exemption for disability pension.
Sources
The Hindu