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Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sahni, who suffers the ignominy of becoming the first General-level officer to be cashiered and given imprisonment in a ration scam by a General Court Martial (GCM), will now now have his fate decided by the Army chief.
Lt Gen Sahni, who was yesterday sentenced to three years RI and cashiered from service after being found guilty of irregularities in procurement of rations for troops in Jammu and Kashmir, was the first in the army’s history to go on trial before a GCM in the rank of a General-level officer.
65-year-old Sahni of the Army Service Corps was found guilty of procuring sub-standard meat and other dry rations for troops deployed on the Siachen mountains and other high altitude areas in 2005.
Already retired from service, Lt Gen Sahni now now faces the prospect of losing his terminal benefits like pension and gratuity besides the rank.
After the GCM report reaches Delhi, his case will go before the Army Chief for confirmation and thereafter to the Defence Minister.
In case, they confirm the conviction and sentence, Sahni can approach the Armed Forces Tribunal in Chandigarh for relief and may be the Supreme Court later.
He is the second General-level officer who has been punished by the GCM but his is the first case of such a senior official being cashiered and sentenced to imprisonment.
Recently, Lt Gen P K Rath faced servere reprimand and 15 years of loss of service for the purpose of pension by a GCM in the Sukna land scam.
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