3 April 1962 (1962-04-03) (age 62) Coochbehar India
Allegiance
India
Service/branch
Indian Army
Rank
Colonel
Unit
Rajput Regiment
Commands held
CO of 26 Rajput
Alma mater
Sainik School purulia National Defence Academy Indian Military Academy
Avijit Misra (born 3 April 1962) is an Indian Army colonel[1] from Pandapara, Kalibari, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. In April 2012, he shot to national limelight in India when the Kolkata bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal acquitted him of all charges earlier decided by a general court martial in 2006.[1][2]
The Armed Forces Tribunal, Kolkata Bench, also ordered that Misra be reinstated.
An officer of 26 Rajput Regiment, Colonel Misra was fired from service and sent to
one year rigorous imprisonment for the crime—blowing the whistle over problems in the unit, while he was posted at the sensitive Zimithang sector, Arunachal Pradesh, on the Sino-Indian border in 2003.[3]
^ abArmed Forces document aftkolkata.nic.in
^"Army reinstates whistleblower Colonel".
^http://expressbuzz.com/topnews/at-last-army-reinstates-whistle-blower-colonel/383546.html[permanent dead link]
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