DISABILITY PENSION ROW MAY TAKE A LEGAL TURN
NEW DELHI: An army veteran has threatened to sue recently retired Adjutant General
Lt Gen Ashwani Kumar for the latter’s comments on disability pension received by retired soldiers. Lieutenant Colonel Niraj Bakshi (retd), who has threatened to sue General Kumar for a sum of ₹1 crore, has claimed the comments of the former Adjutant General has caused “irreparable damage” to his reputation as a disabled soldier, a disability pensioner and an upright military veteran and model citizen.
NEW DELHI: A veteran has threatened to sue recently retired Adjutant General Lt Gen Ashwani Kumar for the latter’s comments on disability pension received by retired soldiers. Kumar retired from the Adjutant General of the Indian Army on October 31.
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Lieutenant Colonel Niraj Bakshi (retd), who has threatened to sue General Kumar for a sum of ~1 crore, was granted disability pension by the government on retiring.
Lieutenant Col Bakshi has claimed the comments of the former Adjutant General has caused “irreparable damage” to his reputation as a disabled soldier, a disability pensioner and an upright military veteran and model citizen. Lieutenant Col Bakshi has sought an“unconditional apology” from Kumar for speaking in an “irresponsible and abandoned manner” about various service subjects and issues “outside” his purview.
On the day Adjutant General Lt Gen Kumar retired, he spoke to media on disability pension paid to veterans and the proposed Code of Conduct for veterans to prevent misuse which he claimed was high
“Take note that in case you issue an unconditional apology duly circulated in public within a period of 15 days from the receipt of this communication, this notice shall stand withdrawn, otherwise litigation shall be instituted in the contempt of Court of Law, the costs and consequences of which you would be personally liable to bear in toto,” the notice dated October 06 read.