In a major relief to a naval officer faced with serious allegations of molesting a fellow officer's daughter, a military court has acquitted him of the charges. The commander-rank officer - equivalent to Lt Col in army - was facing a court martial in Kochi for molesting the daughter of a colleague at the military's prestigious Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) in Tamil Nadu's Wellington. The officer's counsel commander Darshan Singh Randhawa (retd) refused to comment on the acquittal of his client by the naval court. The officer was indicted by a preliminary inquiry after which the court martial was ordered. The DSSC trains major/lieutenant colonel-ranked officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force as well as bureaucrats and soldiers from friendly foreign countries.

Source: India Today October 26, 2017 00:45 UTC