AFT stays retirement of Brigadier till his result for promotion is declaredA Colonel who shot off a legal notice to the Defence Secretary over stopping free rations to Army officers, has finally received free rations today. However, in the intervening period he was also punished for his action and lost out on promotion to Brigadier.
It was in June this year that the Ministry of Defence had accorded sanction in principle for the restoration ‘free rations in kind' to officers of Army, Navy and the Air Force posted in peace stations. The move came after the intervention of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh soon after he took office.
Colonel Mukul Dev, an officer of the Army's Judge Advocate Generals (JAG) Department, the legal wing of the Army, on Wednesday tweeted his happiness at seeing the free rations privilege being restored. “Pleasantly surprised today morning for having received my entitled rations at last after more than two years of illegal stoppage. However, one cannot forget injustice meted to me for raising my voice against the illegal stoppage of entitled rations,” he said.
Colonel Mukul Dev, who is now posted at a military station in the western sector, was issued a ‘Displeasure' by the Army authorities just before his promotion board for the rank of Brigadier was to take place in May 2018 and which effectively stopped his name from being empanelled for promotion. He has challenged the punishment accorded to him for sending the legal…
