A senior Army officer has served a legal notice to the Union Government protesting against the alleged withdrawal of free ration to Army officers in peace areas and sought restoration of the benefit within 60 days.
Col Mukul Dev, Deputy Judge Advocate General, HQ 12 Corps, wrote to the Government of India through Defence secretary Sanjay Mitra seeking immediate withdrawal of the order. “The Government is instead offering ` 96.03 per day as ration money in lieu, which is highly inadequate,” his lawyer Col Rajiv Manglik (retd) told PTI over the phone.
“Can the sum offered be enough to provide calorific value required a dayIJ” Manglik asked.