Majid Jahangir

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, September 18

Days after a Court of Inquiry (CoI) held Major Leetul Gogoi  guilty of fraternising with a local Kashmiri girl and being away from his place of duty in an operational area, the officer has been shifted out of his unit based in Budgam and attached to the local formation headquarters.

Major Gogoi will face summary of evidence (SoE) and, if required, the Army will later initiate court martial proceedings against him.

Officials said Major Gogoi had been shifted out of his 53 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) unit based at Beerwah, Budgam, and “attached” to the Army’s Awantipora-based Victor Force headquarters to face the SoE. “The shifting is a normal procedure once the SoE begins,” a Defence official explained.

Major Gogoi was detained by the police on May 23 while he was in a Srinagar hotel with a local Kashmir girl and another soldier Sameer Malla.