Army court finds Lt. Gen. Rath guilty in Sukna land scam

SHILLONG: An army court martial Friday pronounced former 33 Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Rath guilty on three counts in a land scam in the Sukna military station in West Bengal.

The sentence in the case will be delivered in a couple of days.

Rath had been charged with intent to defraud the army by issuing a No-Objection Certificate to a private realtor to construct an educational insitution on a 70-acre plot adjacent to the military station sometime in 2008.

The court martial, headed by a panel of five lieutenant generals headed by Lt. Gen. I.P. Singh, delivered its judgment here after about an eight-month-long hearing in the case.