Army faked battle of Laungewala’
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The splendid victory achieved by our army in the battle of Laungewala during the 14-day 1971 India-Pakistan war was faked, a soldier awarded a military decoration in those operations has said. It was actually our air force that crushed the Pakistanis.
Major General Atma Singh (retd), who won the Vir Chakra for gallantry at Laungewala, told Hindustan Times that no ground battle was fought and the army had merely rehearsed it on a sand model after the ceasefire to cover up the incompetence of senior military commanders.
The army had last week presented Defence Minister AK Antony a blow-by-blow account of how Major KS Chandpuri (later brigadier) leading just 100 men had frustrated a formidable attack by a Pakistani brigade (some 2,800 troops) backed by an armoured regiment of 45 tanks. Chandpuri was given the Maha Vir Chakra. His alpha company (23 Punjab) won six gallantry awards. The army’s role in the battle had motivated generations and also inspired the Bollywood hit Border.:smack:
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Major ‘guilty of faking battle’**
**An Indian army major has been found guilty of faking acts of gallantry by a military court. **Major Surinder Singh of the elite Gurkha regiment has been sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment and dismissed from the army.
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The court martial found him guilty of seven charges including faking two battles in 2003 on the Siachen glacier, the world’s highest battlefield.
[He had claimed that he blew up enemy bunkers and killed Pakistani soldiers. **
But media reports said later the killings were staged, with civilian army porters posing as dead Pakistani soldiers.
Major Singh says he plans to appeal against the verdict. “This is not justice. My commanding officer has made a scapegoat of me,” the AFP news agency quotes him as saying at the hearing in the town of Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
It was the first time that a court martial was thrown open to the media.
Scandal
The scandal broke in May when India’s defence ministry confirmed an army unit on the glacier was suspected of exaggerating the number of enemies it had killed.
Media reports said the killings were faked in order to win awards and citations for gallantry.
However, at the time the defence ministry strongly defended the awards system.
A spokesman said: “The system of awards and citations is absolutely foolproof. There is no question of anyone receiving awards and citations on false claims.”
India and Pakistan regularly clashed on the 6,300-metre (20,700 ft) glacier until a ceasefire in November last year.
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these indians will do anything to satisfy their ego.. as we know.. only tip of ice berg cases are reviled to the public… imagine how many more case as out their..lol..