With the Army allegedly dragging its feet, the Rajasthan police have launched an investigation into a complaint filed by Keralite Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Arun Kumar that he was being branded a lunatic for reporting corruption by his superior officers.
The probe was launched on the basis of a court order asking the police to investigate his complaint.
The Nasirabad City Police have filed a case against senior Army officers on the complaint filed by Lt Col Kumar - hailing from Thiruvananthapuram - and attached to the HQ 374 Composite Artillery Brigade, Nasirabad. The police have listed as accused the Commander and Deputy Commander of the 374 Composite Artillery Brigade, a Colonel of the 212 Rocket Regiment, the Commander of the Military Hospital in Nasirabad and the medical officer and officiating registrar of the hospital.
Circle Inspector Ashok Kumar Meena, Station House Officer of the Nasirabad police station (City), told Express that an investigation was on, and that his officers were in the process of collecting statements from the Army officers concerned.
Express on July 1 had reported on the Army officer’s plight. Kumar had charged his senior officers of persecuting him, and subsequently detaining him illegally in the psychiatric ward of the military hospital, for reporting corruption in the Army.
He also approached the court earlier this year and shot off legal notices to top Army brass. Shortly after that, he was discharged from the hospital and posted back to his unit. In September, the Army had set up a one-man panel to look into his complaint, but no action, allegedly, was taken.