{"id":16964,"date":"2012-02-10T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=16964"},"modified":"2012-02-10T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:05:03","slug":"supreme-court-nixes-army-chief-age-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-nixes-army-chief-age-plea","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court nixes army chief age plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-nixes-army-chief-age-plea\/supreme-court-164\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16965\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16965\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-nixes-army-chief-age-plea\/supreme-court-164\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/supreme-court3.jpg?fit=259%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,195\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/supreme-court3.jpg?fit=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/supreme-court3.jpg?fit=259%2C195&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16965\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/supreme-court3.jpg?resize=259%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/supreme-court3.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/02\/supreme-court3.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>In a major blow to Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh, the Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain his plea challenging a government order setting his birth date as May 10, 1950 and said it will be forced to dump it if he did not withdraw it.<\/p>\n<p>The court order has left Gen. Singh with little option over his dragging contention that he was actually born on May 10, 1951 &#8211; not 1950 &#8211; and that the issue concerned his &#8220;honour and integrity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing his petition at the admission stage, the apex court also asked the army chief to honour his letters of 2008 and 2009 accepting 1950 as his birth year.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the government order recognising his birth year as 1950 does not suffer from perversity and was not grossly erroneous.<\/p>\n<p>It pointed out that some &#8220;threshold&#8221; documents Gen. Singh had submitted to the government too maintained that he was born in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>The documents relate to the records of the Union Public Service Commission, the National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The court said there was no prejudice vis-a-vis Gen. Singh and that the government had full faith in him.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the government told the court that it had withdrawn a Dec 30, 2011 order rejecting Gen. Singh&#8217;s plea to reconcile his birth date to May 10, 1950 &#8212; which prompted him to move the court.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati told the court that the government had acted in response to a Feb 3 apex court querry whether it was willing to withdraw the order.<\/p>\n<p>The court had then said that the Dec 30, 2011 order was &#8220;vitiated&#8221; by opinion given by Vahanvati in July 2011 that led the government to reject the army chief&#8217;s request on his age.<\/p>\n<p>While the army chief maintains that he was born in 1951, the government insists he was born a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The discrepancy was pointed out by the Military Secretary&#8217;s branch in 2006 when Gen. Singh was being considered for promotion as corps commander.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, all his promotions, including as army commander in 2008 and army chief in 2010, were made on the basis that he was born in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>If 1950 is taken as Gen. Singh&#8217;s year of birth, he would have to retire in May. 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