An Indian army officer has been dismissed after a court martial found he used civilians splashed with tomato ketchup to pose as dead separatist rebels in a bid to claim a bravery medal.
Colonel H S Kohli allegedly took photographs of civilians covered with tomato sauce and posing as corpses and gave them to his senior officers as proof of separatist killings in the revolt-hit north-eastern state of Assam.
“The colonel tried to use the photographs to back his claim for a gallantry award and was subsequently tried and found guilty in a court martial,” an army spokesman said.
“The colonel lost his job while a major who connived with him was suspended for five years,” he said.
The fraud came to light when scrutiny of records following the colonel’s claim for a gallantry medal showed no deaths ever occurred.
“It was indeed bizarre to find him trying to claim a bravery award for the killings, which in fact did not take place at all,” the spokesman said.
The colonel’s dismissal, which local media reports dubbed the “saucy scandal”, is the latest such incident to shake the Indian army.
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Last May, India’s Defence Ministry said Indian troops staged fake battles on the world’s highest battleground on the Siachen glacier and made false claims about killing Pakistani soldiers in a bid to win medals.** Officer Uses Ketchup To Fake Battle
**Well well the brave indian army is nothing but bunch of cowards that we always thought they where even faking the battle on saichen glacier and this from the Defence Ministry of India, what do the fanatical indian supporters say now they talk and lie blatantly about bravely killing pak soldiers and martyrs not being picked of battle field nice imagination that they have!
Ketchup to fake battle scenes how low and pathetic can you get!**
Somehow every article ever posted on “khilafah.com” gets posted here at Gupshup. Perhaps Gupshup should cease to exist, and forward all WA viewers to that bastion of truth.
ditto to a certain army presenting their families with an 0 for 4 war record. ;)
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My my what they teach in indoo schools.... living in your own little world... You may add the last standoff to the list too, along with chincom ass kicking.
Atleast its better than that soldier who was suppost to be given the highest galantry award. During the ceremony where the cheif or army staff was giving a speech about him and how he sacrificed his life for the country, they soldiers wife called and said that he is alive and all they are talking about never happened. The chief was pretty pissed off at that incidence.
