Apex court nixes army chief`s age plea

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NEW DELHI, Feb 10: In a major blow to Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh, the Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain his plea challenging a government order setting his birth date as May 10, 1950 and said it will be forced to dump it if he did not withdraw it.

The court order has left Gen. Singh with little option over his dragging contention that he was actually born on May 10, 1951 `“ not 1950 `“ and that the issue concerned his `honour and integrity`.

Hearing his petition at the admission stage, the apex court also asked the army chief to honour his letters of 2008 and 2009 accepting 1950 as his birth year.

It noted that the government order recognising his birth year as 1950 does not suffer from perversity and was not grossly erroneous.

It pointed out that some `threshold` documents Gen. Singh had submitted to the government too maintained that he was born in 1950.

The documents relate to the records of the Union Public Service Commission, the National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy.

The court said there was no prejudice vis-a-vis Gen. Singh and that the government had full faith in him.

Earlier in the day, the government told the court that it had withdrawn a Dec 30, 2011 order rejecting Gen. Singh`™s plea to reconcile his birth date to May 10, 1950 `” which prompted him to move the court.

Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati told the court that the government had acted in response to a Feb 3 apex court querry whether it was willing to withdraw the order.

The court had then said that the Dec 30, 2011 order was `vitiated` by opinion given by Vahanvati in July 2011 that led the government to reject the army chief`™s request on his age.

While the army chief maintains that he was born in 1951, the government insists he was born a year earlier.

The discrepancy was pointed out by the Military Secretary`™s branch in 2006 when Gen. Singh was being considered for promotion as corps commander.

Since then, all his promotions, including as army commander in 2008 and army chief in 2010, were made on the basis that he was born in 1950.

If 1950 is taken as Gen. Singh`™s year of birth, he would have to retire in May. If the year is taken as 1951, he would retire in March 2013.

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  1. This news item is a symptom of India’s problem. V. K. SINGH WILL NOT CARRY OUT A MILITARY COUP BUT THE SIMULTANEOUS NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION OF NEW DELHI, WASHIGTON & NEW YORK WILL SOLVE THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM :-
    The number of Indian children being trafficked to Israel, brutally tortured, killed and consumed as food every year far exceeds the number of deaths in Syria’s civil unrest but there is no international outcry about it. RAW had proposed a processing facility to prepare and ship the meat of Indians to Israel but it was rejected because Jewish custom requires the victims to be tortured and killed over several hours before they can be eaten.

    A by-product of their being killed in Israel rather than India is that their skins are found to be incomparably more valuable than their meat  and are used in the manufacture of super-expensive shoes and handbags.

    Should RAW’s trafficking of Indian children to Israel as food and for their skins be a cause for regime change? You bet! 

    This trafficking has the sanction of the Italian woman but is she a member of Indian society? The wealth that Imelda Marcos and her husband in the Philippines amassed was not even peanuts compared to the wealth amassed by the Italian woman just as Imelda Marcos’ world famous shoe collection was nothing compared to the Italian woman’s fetish for shoes made from the skins of Indian children.

    The Italian woman gifted some of these shoes made from the skins of Indian children to the French president’s wife who is Italian. Also handbags. The United States Secretary of State had requested one such handbag and it was sent to her by special jet which made the trip just for this purpose. Soon it will be a standard gift item to give to people in American and European governments.

    The BJP said its ministers in the Karnataka legislature were only “watching” violent porn videos on a smart phone, not “doing” it. Owners of these shoes & handbags — who report wearing these shoes or carrying the handbag to be an intensely sexual experience — get videos of the prolonged torture, killing & skinning of the child whose skin was used in their shoes or handbags & can choose the child in advance.

    I am India’s expert  in strategic defence, the father of India’s strategic program including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program and the world’s greatest scientist (my biography is in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, 2012 and earlier editions).

    It will be a fatal mistake to get diverted by the abuse RAW posts to divert people. This is just the tip of the iceberg. RAW is also posting fake comments in my name and removing my posted comments. See  RAWsTraffickingOfIndianChildrenDOTblogspotDOTcom    for a full description of the problem and of the solution — the simultaneous nuclear destruction of New Delhi, Washington & New York.

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