A group of Army officers, falsely punished in the Samba spy scandal, have appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind to deliver justice by cancelling the false charges and terminations happened in late 70s.
Urging the President return their honour, the officers led by retired Major NR Ajwani said most of the officers and jawans now in their 70s and 80s were dismissed from service and faced prosecutions for decades for the wrong case needed to die in honuor.
"Samba spy case was a gigantic fraud played by some Military Intelligence Officers on Nation misusing the rules regarding National Security," said the veteran officers.
Including the entire officers and jawans of Samba unit was terminated on this case, which later turned to be a total false and around 200 persons including civilians were arrested, tortured and prosecuted for decades.
The retired officers pointed out that due to the stiff and non-responsive stand taken by the top officers of Defence Ministry, they did not get justice from Judiciary also, though the spy case was turned to be false and fabricated one.
The retired Army officers also pointed out several lacunas in the Judgments of Supreme Courts on this regard due to the non-responsive attitude of the Defence Ministry.
Many Intelligence Bureau directors like Ajit Doval, TV Rajeswar had given report that this case was totally fabricated. None of these reports were placed in the judicial forums, they pointed out.
Also, Major Ajwani presented his recently released book 'The False Spy' to the President of India along with the three page memorandum seeking delivery justice to the veteran army officers and jawans wrongly implicated in the spy case.