TRUTH ULTIMATELY TRIUMPHS !!! HOPE SOON COMMERCE MINISTRY'S FRAUD ALSO WILL COME TO LIGHT THROUGH THE INDIAN JUDICIARY.

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TRUTH ULTIMATELY TRIUMPHS !!! HOPE SOON COMMERCE MINISTRY'S FRAUD ALSO WILL COME TO LIGHT THROUGH THE INDIAN JUDICIARY.

The army faced a huge embarrassment with the Armed Forces Tribunal raising serious questions over the Kargil war history. A verdict in the favour of Kargil war hero Brigadier Devinder Singh came as a slap on the face of the army's Kargil war commanders.

The tribunal has questioned the veracity of entire history of the Kargil war. Brigadier Singh, who commanded the 70 Infantry Brigade during the war, personally led what most military experts agree was the hardest campaign of the Kargil war.

But his top commanders fabricated war records to deny the recognition due to Brigadier Singh and his brigade. After a bitter decade-long fight, the army has been forced to set the record straight about his performance in the war.

After years of endless petitioning and court appearances, the retired brigadier finally got justice on Wednesday when the tribunal upheld his petition against his top commanders. The tribunal lashed out at former 15 Corps commander Lt Gen Kishan Pal for being prejudiced and biased.

The judgement came as a great relief for Brigadier Singh who, despite a great deal of battle valour, received a relatively low-order peace-time decoration and was passed over for a promotion by the army.

"There is a sense of relief for me and my brigade after the tribunal's verdict. I am getting congratulatory calls from my team," Brigadier Singh told Headlines Today.

"Our stand has been vindicated. We had felt hurt when someone else got the credit," he said. "The tribunal has said that he (Lt Gen Kishan Pal) was biased and that none of his reports about me is tenable."

"This was a battle for honour and the facts are out now," Brigadier Singh said.

Brigadier Singh's feat
Brigadier Singh had commanded the 70 Infantry Brigade in the Batalik sector during the Kargil war. He led the critical battle for Point 5203, which had been quickly overrun by Pakistani troops in the early days of the war. He also led the assaults on the Jubbar complex, one of the most difficult campaigns during the war.

A month before the operations broke out during a corps-level war game, Brigadier Singh had also predicted the pattern of intrusions by Pakistan Army regulars but Lt Gen Kishan Pal, the then 15 Corps Commander, doctored his battle performance report to underplay his role.

Brigadier Singh became a victim of prejudice and that cost him a war medal. He was recommended for a Mahavir Chakra, the second highest award for gallantry but was awarded a Vishisht Seva Medal, a peacetime decoration.