An IAF officer has been dismissed from service on charges of having an affair with the wife of a fellow officer. The woman, a Squadron leader, had allegedly committed suicide on November 28 last year.
Flight lieutenant Officer Ishant Sharma was dismissed from service after a court of inquiry indicted him after conducting a probeinto the suicide, officials said on Tuesday.
The deceased woman’s husband is also a fighter pilot. The woman was found hanging by her husband in their official accommodation in Jodhpur.Sharma, a fighter pilot, was found guilty by the court of inquiry for having an affair termed in Services parlance as “stealing affection of brother officer’s wife.”
As per armed forces rules it is a punishable offence. After the court of inquiry was completed, South Western Air command had forwarded the inquiry’s recommendations to sack the officer to the Defence Ministry and it gave its approval, officials said.