Woman Col ‘slits throat’ at Western Command gate in Punjab, husband demands CBI probe

At 3.27 pm, her husband, besides a Colonel and a erstwhile serviceman of the JAG Branch, pasted connected X a photograph of his injured wife, demanding a CBI probe against a elder Army officer.

Speaking with The Indian Express, the hubby said, “My woman wanted to conscionable elder officers successful HQs Western Command contiguous concerning respective complaints she had lodged against galore officials, including her Commanding Officer for disciplinary purposes, Deputy GOC 40 Artillery Division. No enactment is being taken connected her complaints of carnal and verbal misbehaviour by antheral and pistillate Army officers. She was besides deprived of each aesculapian documents connected Wednesday erstwhile she went to MH Ambala.”

“She was disturbed and tried to conscionable elder officers astatine Western Command headquarters, but astatine the main gate, her telephone telephone was not responded. She inflicted the wounded upon herself successful desperation and was taken to the infirmary by Army jawans stationed astatine the gate,” the hubby said.

The pistillate serviceman had successful 2023, lodged an FIR against 4 officers, including 3 Brigadiers and a Lt Colonel, nether the Sexual Harassment of Women astatine Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.

HQs Western Command, however, said: “The Colonel presently posted astatine Ambala was to study to Command Hospital, Chandimandir for a review. A Government conveyance was provided to the Officer for the purpose. On reaching Chandimandir, the serviceman did an enactment of deliberate self-harm to debar disciplinary proceedings. Disciplinary proceedings against the serviceman are underway. As such, the wounded was superficial and the serviceman was sent backmost to the portion aft administering archetypal aid.”

Sources said the pistillate serviceman had earlier this twelvemonth attempted to harm herself by “inflicting wounds connected her cervix and wrists” connected antithetic occasions.

On July 13, she inflicted a coiled connected her cervix and was admitted to the Military Hospital successful Ambala earlier being shifted to the Command Hospital, Chandimandir, for psychiatric evaluation. The Army had, however, called her wounds “superficial”. Four days later, she slashed her wrist aft the Deputy GOC HQs 40 Artillery Division connected July 9 suspended her for 90 days implicit the pending disciplinary proceedings initiated against her by the Army connected the charges of respective lapses.

In September, her hubby was arrested by Ambala Cantt Police connected the ailment of a Lt Colonel of HQs 40 Artillery Division, accusing him of misbehaviour and preventing a authorities authoritative from doing his duty.

The hubby had besides lodged a ailment against respective Army officers of the fertile of Brigadier and Colonel for allegedly misbehaving with his woman erstwhile she was undergoing attraction astatine the Military Hospital successful Ambala.