Eastern Naval Command chief Vice Admiral Singh last month was nominated as the next Navy chief.
New Delhi: Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command Vice Admiral Bimal Verma has moved an armed forces tribunal seeking to know why he was overlooked as the next navy chief despite being the senior-most in the line of command.
Vice Admiral Verma has said that the government had in an “arbitrary and whimsical” manner ignored the recommendation of the Chief of Naval Staff and appointed his junior Vice Admiral Karambir Singh as the next chief of the Indian Navy.
In second supersession affected in the armed forces by Narendra Modi government, Eastern Naval Command chief Vice Admiral Singh last month was nominated as the next Navy chief.
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