The night navigation training excursion proved fatal for Gentleman Cadet ( GC) Amul Rawal of Indian Military Academy (IMA) when he fell into a gorge during the training on Monday night and lost his life.
The cadets of the second term were undergoing routine night navigation exercise in mountainous terrain when GC Rawal met with the accident.
The Public Relations Officer ( PRO) of the IMA, Dehradun, Lieutenant Colonel Shivendra Singh said that GC Amul Rawal sustained head injury and was given immediate medical attention on the spot.
“He was rushed in an ambulance to Military Hospital, Dehradun under the supervision of a medical officer.
However, he succumbed to his injuries and was declared brought in dead at the Military Hospital, Dehradun,’’ he said.
The parents of the GC Amul Rawal who reside in Karnal in Haryana were informed about the tragic accident by the IMA authorities.
The family members of the GC arrived in the IMA on Tuesday to claim his mortal remains.
GC Rawal was an ex NDA cadet who had joined Indian Military Academy in January 2019 after three years of training at National Defence Academy.
He was to pass out from the academy in December this year. The IMA authorities have ordered a procedural Court of Inquiry (CoI) in the incident.
The unfortunate death of a GC during the night navigation training has brought back the memory of back to back deaths of two cadets in the year 2017.
In August 2017, GCs Deepak Sharma and Nabin Kumar Chhetri died when they reportedly fainted during strenuous 10 kilo -meter run.
At that time these two deaths had shocked the premier military training institute of the country and questions were raised about the safety of the training methods adopted in the premier academy.