New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to give early hearing on a plea challenging appointment of Army Vice-Chief Dalbir Singh Suhag as the next Army Chief and directed listing of the case in the second week of July.
A bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen advanced the hearing of the case from September to July after it was submitted that Lt. Gen. Suhag is to take over the charge from August 1 and the controversy over his appointment needed to be settled before that. The court was hearing a plea filed by Lt. Gen. Ravi Dastane alleging favouritism in selection of Lt. Gen. Suhag.
Earlier, the Centre justified the appointment and submitted that the alleged lapses that were made as grounds to impose disciplinary ban on Lt. Gen.
Suhag by then Army Chief Gen. V.K. Singh were “premeditated”, “vague” and “illegal”. The ban was imposed for alleged “failure of command” in an operation by an intelligence unit under him.
