SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 (PAGE 10) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Defence Ministry rejects Bimal Verma's petition challenging appointment of Navy Chief NEW DELHI, May 18: The Defence Ministry has rejected Bimal Verma's petition challenging the appointment of his junior, Vice Admiral , as the next Navy Chief, holding that seniority is not the sole criteria for selection. In an order, the defence ministry said Verma's statutory petition dated April 10 against appointment of Vice Admiral Singh to the top post is devoid of merit and has been rejected in exercise of powers under Section 23 of the Navy Act 1957. Verma, commander-in-chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command and senior-most naval commander, had moved a mili- tary tribunal last month questioning Vice Admiral Singh's appoint- ment as the next Navy Chief, overlooking his seniority. Singh will take over as the new Navy chief from incumbent Admiral Sunil Lanba, who is retiring on May 31. The tribunal had on April 25 directed the defence ministry to decide Verma's petition within three weeks. "The Chief of Naval Staff is selected from amongst the senior most eligible Vice Admirals of the in the rank of Commander-in-Chief/VCNS (Vice Chief of Naval Staff) through a rigorous selection process, where seniority though an important consideration is not the sole criteria for selection," the defence ministry said in its order in response to Verma's petition. "Thus in the past too seniority has been dispensed with in appointment of CNS," it said.(PTI) OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER MHCH DIVISION, GMCH JAMMU

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