The search was launched in a bid to avoid any confusion in case Gen VK Singh quit.
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry has begun the search for the next Army chief in a bid to avoid any confusion in case General VK Singh quits or if a court rejects his plea before his official tenure comes to an end.
The government says he will retire in April this year, but General Singh is fighting a legal case to have his birthdate moved back one year, thereby giving him another year in service.
Meanwhile, an ex-servicemen's NGO has filed a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) in the Supreme Court backing General Singh's claims.
The Grenadier's Association of Rohtak filed a PIL demanding that the apex court fix his birth date as May 1951.
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