Srinagar, May 01 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, disciplinary action has been directed against two Indian Army officers who were found guilty in pilferage of diesel and kerosene oil.

Administrative action has also been taken against four other officers who were involved in the incident.

The incident came to the notice in July 2005 that water was being supplied instead of diesel in seven tankers of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in Ladakh region of Indian Army’s Northern Command.

Police in its charge-sheet, filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Leh, earlier this week, named Brigadier Sukhbir Singh, the then Deputy Director Supply and Transport, Lt Col D K Chaturvedi, the then Officer-in-Command of 406 Army Supply Corps, Captain Parveen Rawat (406 ASC), Subedar Majors Sunder Singh and R K Nigam. The Police also lodged an FIR against the civilian drivers of the Petroleum Lorries.  

According to the charge sheet, Indian Army officials in connivance with the IOC officials were replacing kerosene oil and diesel from the tankers with water, which upon its arrival in Leh, was unloaded in barren mountains.  The case came up for hearing before CJM, Leh on April 04, 2008.