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Indian Army chief withdraws age row petition
Friday February 10, 2012 03:40:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Indian Army
chief General V.K. Singh Friday withdrew his petition demanding
that his birth date be treated as May 10, 1951. His lawyer said
the dragging row has been "gracefully" resolved.
Gen Singh took back the plea after the Supreme Court warned that
it would dump his petition if he did not withdraw it.
Gen Singh's lawyer, Puneet Bali, said later that Attorney General
G.E. Vahanvati's statement that the government had not questioned
the integrity of the army chief was enough to satisfy them.
"The matter has been resolved amicably and gracefully," Bali told
hordes of journalists in the court complex.
He said the army chief had repeatedly maintained that he was
fighting for his "integrity and honour" and not to seek an
extension of his tenure that ends May 31 this year.
"This was the only battle we were fighting," Bali said. "The
honour and integrity have been restored. It is not about tenure.
We are absolutely satisfied.
"Once the attorney general's statement has been made, nothing
remains. We are clear in our mind.
"We do not want to agitate further... It is the end of the
matter."
The army chief went to the Supreme Court Jan 16 insisting that he
was actually born on May 10, 1951, and not a year earlier as
claimed by the government.
Gen Singh's counsel U.U. Lalit earlier Friday told Justice R.M.
Lodha and Justice H.L. Gokhale that they were no more pressing for
the reconciliation of his birth date -- as shown in his school
certificate.
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