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SC brokers peace, General backs down
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, Feb 10 (CMC) Thanks to give and take by both sides nudged along by a Supreme Court — that blended both diplomacy and law — curtains were drawn today on the legal controversy over the Army Chief General Vijay Kumar Singh’s date of birth.
The bench disposed of his petition after the General said that he did not want to press his case for a final determination on whether he was born in 1950 or 1951. This came after the government withdrew its December 30, 2011 order rejecting his statutory complaint and gave repeated assurances that at no point did it question the integrity of the “graceful soldier”.
Speaking to The Clean Media this evening, General Singh said: “The Supreme Court has given its verdict. And like every democratic citizen of this country, I hold the court in the highest regard. It has upheld my integrity and honour while asking the government to withdraw the December 30 order, against which I had gone to the court. I thank the hon’ble Supreme Court.”
A bench of Justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale struck a conciliatory chord that led the government to assure that it had contested Singh’s petition only as a “matter of principle.” Attorney General G E Vahanvati went to the extent of writing down the government’s assurance and hand it over to the bench, which recorded the exact intent in its final written order.
The court made it plain that its power of judicial review under the extraordinary jurisdiction of Article 32 of the Constitution was only confined to the “recognition of age as per the service records” and not unearth the “actual age” of the Army Chief.
SC brokers peace, General backs down
Clean Media Correspondent
New Delhi, Feb 10 (CMC) Thanks to give and take by both sides nudged along by a Supreme Court — that blended both diplomacy and law — curtains were drawn today on the legal controversy over the Army Chief General Vijay Kumar Singh’s date of birth.
The bench disposed of his petition after the General said that he did not want to press his case for a final determination on whether he was born in 1950 or 1951. This came after the government withdrew its December 30, 2011 order rejecting his statutory complaint and gave repeated assurances that at no point did it question the integrity of the “graceful soldier”.
Speaking to The Clean Media this evening, General Singh said: “The Supreme Court has given its verdict. And like every democratic citizen of this country, I hold the court in the highest regard. It has upheld my integrity and honour while asking the government to withdraw the December 30 order, against which I had gone to the court. I thank the hon’ble Supreme Court.”
A bench of Justices R M Lodha and H L Gokhale struck a conciliatory chord that led the government to assure that it had contested Singh’s petition only as a “matter of principle.” Attorney General G E Vahanvati went to the extent of writing down the government’s assurance and hand it over to the bench, which recorded the exact intent in its final written order.
The court made it plain that its power of judicial review under the extraordinary jurisdiction of Article 32 of the Constitution was only confined to the “recognition of age as per the service records” and not unearth the “actual age” of the Army Chief.
It was one of the most graceful gestures shown by any army chief in the country. Salute to Mr Singh.
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