Major Leetul Gogoi faces reduction in seniority, to be posted outside Kashmir Valley

J&K, April 6, 2019:

The controversial Major Leetul Gogoi has been severely reprimanded by the Indian Army with a loss of seniority pension of six months.

It may be recalled that Gogoi, who originally hails from Assam, was found guilty of ‘fraternizing with a local woman in Jammu and Kashmir’. Gogoi was detained by Jammu and Kashmir police in May last year after an argument broke out between him and staff of a hotel – when Gogoi wanted to check in to the hotel with a young Kashmiri woman.

A Court of Inquiry (CoI) was headed by a Brigadier-rank officer that found him guilty of unauthorized absence from the unit and ‘fraternizing with a local’ in violation of Army instructions in operational areas.

He completed his court-martial was completed in March this year.

Gogoi had earlier made national headlines when he tied up a civilian identified as Farooq Ahmad Dar on the front of his jeep as a ‘human shield’ to save his soldiers from stone-pelting in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. He was subsequently condemned by many human rights organizations for his act.

Moreover, Major Gogoi will be posted out of Kashmir.