Tej Bahadur Yadav had petitioned the High Court in January this year against his dismissal from the BSF.
Justifying Constable Tej Bahadur Yadav's dismissal from the BSF last year, the Centre on Monday told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that a video he posted on the quality of food being served to security personnel “could have led to mutiny among the armed forces”.
Calling Yadav's complaint “a cooked up story”, the government and BSF, in a written reply, said the video was an ill-conceived idea to “malign the image” of the force, and that his dismissal was only a minor punishment for the offences he had been convicted.
The High Court was told that the BSF discouraged additional tadka in daal to make it extra spicy and oily due to the rising cases of cardiac problems among troops, and that the “daal looked watery because it was made in a pressure cooker”.
Yadav had petitioned the High Court in January this year against his dismissal from the BSF. The reply from the government and BSF was taken on record on Monday. Yadav's counsel, advocate S P Yadav, sought time to respond to the government affidavit. The matter will be heard next on February 27, 2019.
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