New Delhi, Jan. 21: The former 33 Corps chief, Lt. Gen. P.K. Rath, was on Friday found guilty of committing irregularities in the Sukna land case by an Army court martial in Shillong, making him the highest-ranking serving Army officer ever to be indicted by a court martial.
Lt. Gen. Rath was found guilty on three counts that relate to willingness to issue a no-objection certificate for construction on private land adjoining Army land, issue of directions to sign an MoU with the owners of the private land and not informing the Eastern Command headquarters in Kolkata.
Army sources confirmed that Lt. Gen. Rath had been held guilty by the court martial on three counts. Lt. Gen. Rath was due to take over as the Army’s deputy chief (information systems and training) on November 1, 2009, but his proposed appointment was scrapped after the detection of alleged irregularities.