Tribunal quashes govt AFMS order

Jan 22, 2011 |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

The selection process for the top job of director general of the Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) is wide open now following a judgment of the Armed Forces Tribunal directing that a retired officer (and the petitioner in this case) Lt. Gen. Pradeep Bhargava (Retd.) be considered for promotion to the post of DGAFMS, along with

other eligible candidates. In a setback to the government, the Tribunal quashed the order of the Union government — that was issued on April 26 last year — wherein the government had ordered the expunging of the assessment of an officer in the annual confidential report of 2005 of a senior officer Lt. Gen. Naresh Kumar, who is now the officiating DGAFMS.
“The expunging of remarks of the CR of 2005 of respondent No. 4 (Lt. Gen. Naresh Kumar) and giving him benefit of promotion to the post of Lt. Gen. from 2007 to have march over the petitioner (Lt. Gen. Bhargava) was no bonafide action,” the tribunal ruled.
The tribunal ruled that the petitioner Lt. Gen. Bhargava (Retd.) is to be considered for the promotion to the post of DGAFMS as the post had fallen vacant on July 1, 2010, when the petitioner was very much in service.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/53501" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-ed9ef5cf1284e2e942ddffa846b7c92c" value="form-ed9ef5cf1284e2e942ddffa846b7c92c" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="84282077" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>