{"id":311111,"date":"2019-04-08T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311111"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:56:40","slug":"vice-admiral-bimal-verma-moves-armed-forces-tribunal-against-appointment-of-vice-admiral-karambir-singh-as-navy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vice-admiral-bimal-verma-moves-armed-forces-tribunal-against-appointment-of-vice-admiral-karambir-singh-as-navy-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice Admiral Bimal Verma moves Armed Forces Tribunal against appointment of Vice Admiral Karambir Singh as Navy Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311112 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bimal-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/bimal-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/bimal-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/bimal-556x420.jpg 556w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/bimal.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice Admiral Bimal Verma on Monday, moved the Armed Forces Tribunal against his supersession and appointment of Vice Admiral Karambir Singh as the next Chief of Indian Navy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his petition, Verma has challenged the government&#8217;s move to appoint Singh, his junior as the next Chief of Naval Staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice Admiral Karambir Singh was appointed as the next chief of Navy staff on March 23 as the incumbent Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Sunil Lanba is slated to retire in May this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence spokesperson had earlier said, \u201cGovernment has appointed Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, Eastern Naval Commander as the next Chief of Naval Staff in place of Admiral Sunil Lanba who vacates the office on 31 May 2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice Admiral\u00a0Karambir Singh\u00a0is currently serving as the Flag Officer Commanding in Chief of Eastern Naval Command.\u00a0 He will be the first helicopter pilot of the Indian Navy to hold the office of the Chief of Naval Staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Admiral Bimal Verma on Monday, moved the Armed Forces Tribunal against his supersession and appointment of Vice Admiral Karambir Singh as the next Chief of Indian Navy.\u00a0 In his petition, Verma has challenged the government&#8217;s move to appoint Singh, his junior as the next Chief of Naval Staff.\u00a0 Vice Admiral Karambir Singh was appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11238,11237,11184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311113,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311111\/revisions\/311113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}