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New Delhi
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition challenging the appointment
of Lt Gen Bikram Singh as the next Army chief.
The court said that after carefully going through the averments made in the
petition and the material placed before it, it does not find anything material
to entertain the petition.
The court had gone through the documents submitted before it by the Centre
regarding the appointment of Lt Gen Bikram Singh as the Army Chief-designate.
The PIL, filed by petitioners including former Naval Chief Admiral L.
Ramdas, had challenged the appointment of Lt Gen Bikram Singh as the next Army
Chief alleging his involvement in a fake encounter in 2001 in Kashmir.
The petitioners also alleged that Lt Gen Bikram Singh did not take action
against certain officers accused of sexual harassment when he was leading a
peacekeeping force in Congo
The court sought to know whether the charges against Lt Gen Bikram Singh
were forwarded to the Cabinet Committee on Appointments when the green signal
was given for him to succeed Gen V.K. Singh as the next Army Chief when the
latter retires on May 31.
The Government had claimed that the PIL was filed with malafide intention
and with an intention to rake up the controversy of the Army Chief's age once
again.
It maintained that Lt Gen Bikram Singh's appointment was done in a
transparent manner, adding that there was a communal angle to the case.
The apex court restrained the petitioners from coming up with “bald”
allegations against Lt Gen Bikram Singh.
The court, while agreeing to hear the PIL against Lt Gen Bikram Singh's
appointment as the Army Chief-designate, however, said it will not re-consider
the age controversy of the Army Chief Gen V K Singh.
The court had earlier declined to conduct the
proceedings in the matter ‘in-camera’ (in private). 
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