Chandigarh July 15, 2008
A captain in the Indian Army Tuesday alleged that she was being sexually harassed by three senior officers and was being illegally confined in her unit in Haryana's Kalka town near here. However, the army authorities said she had a history of "mental weakness" and was not under house arrest.
Captain Poonam Kaur, who is serving in an army supply and transport unit located at Kalka, alleged that she was being sexually harassed by her commanding officer Col RK Sharma, his second-in-command Lt Col Ajay Chawla and Major Suraj Bhan.
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Question: How an Officer of history of "Mental Weakness" has been commissioned into the Armed Forces? Does mental weakness constitute mental illness? Does history mean one or two years or decades? Have the selection standards been so adversely diluted? Or is the Mental Illness/ weakness attributable to Service conditions. If so the mute question is what compensation she be paid for her honourable discharge, now that Officer's whole life has been ruined due to Mental Illness and Scandal. Why is this news hitting the national Headlines tarnishing the image of the Armed Forces? The IAS Officers are not too far behind, read: Harassment charge against IAS officer
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