Today's hot news is that the Army Tribunal has held that the war report on the butalik sector during the Kargil war in 1999 was doctored by the corps commander Lt Gen Krishan Pal. Brig Devinder Singh is said to have been vindicated after long 11 years. One of the media channels has gone overboard to jump to all sorts of conclusions. Its main correspondent had so little patience during the 9 o clock news tonight that he kept on interrupting and was virtually putting words in the mouths of the two armymen. During the news, it surfaced that Lt Gen Krishan Pal was never summoned before the tribunal which in my opinion has been a denial of natural justice. [ if and when Lt Gen Krishan Pal is indicted.]
One of the panelists outrightly told that Lt Gen Krishan Pal was not fit to be in the position that he was in. This comment was certainly not called for. We should be more civilised in passing a judgement on others especially when you are not saying things to your wife in your bedroom!
In my considered opinion,technicalities and the niceties apart, the tribunal findings do not mean anything to the common man who even earlier to the new finding, believed that the Indian army had fought gallantly in Kargil in 1999 and his opinion remains unchanged.
