NEW DELHI: The Navy is all set to sack a senior officer, who was posted in the sensitive directorate of naval operations in New Delhi, for allegedly having an extra-marital affair.
The captain-rank officer (equivalent to a colonel in Army) was undergoing the top-notch Higher Defence Management Course (HDMC) in Secunderabad when he allegedly had the affair, said sources.
But when the woman apparently asked the officer to marry him, he refused saying he was married with two young children and was not willing to divorce his wife. The woman complained to Navy chief Admiral D K Joshi - who had earlier declared that the force had a "zero-tolerance" policy against "personal demeanours" -- and also provided proof of the intimate relationship.
The Navy ordered a Board of Inquiry (BoI) against the officer, after shunting him out of the naval operations directorate, to verify the facts of the complaint. "It was found the officer and the woman, a doctor, had studied together in the naval school in Goa as kids earlier. They then went their separate ways before meeting once again a couple of years ago and established sexual relations,'' said a source.
After the BoI completed its probe and held the officer guilty, he was issued a show-cause notice to explain his conduct and asked why action should not be taken against him. The Navy has recommended to the defence ministry that the officer be dismissed through administrative action.
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