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Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty took over as the Vice Chief of the Indian Army. Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, who took over as the Vice Chief of the Indian Army on Monday, brings with him a recent experience of strategising against the Chinese aggression.  He has commanded the Trishakti Corps immediately after Doklam standoff. The 33 Corps based in Sukma takes care of deployment in Sikkim.  In his career spanning 39 years, the officer commanded a battalion on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and later in the North East. “He has the unique distinction of commanding two brigades: First on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), and later on the multinational UN Brigade in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He later commanded the Rangiya based Division in a counter-insurgency environment and the Sikkim-based Trishakti Corps immediately after the Doklam incident,” the Indian Army said.  Lt Gen Mohanty takes over the appointment of the Vice Chief of...

Major General Gautam Chauhan took charge as the first Additional Director General Human Rights in the Indian Army on Thursday and will work under the India Army Vice Chief Lieutenant General SK Saini. Representative Image The Indian Army has appointed a Major General rank officer to head its newly created human rights cell to give high priority to the observance of human rights convention and values, officials said. Major General Gautam Chauhan took charge as the first Additional Director General Human Rights in the Indian Army on Thursday and will work under the India Army Vice Chief Lieutenant General SK Saini. The human rights cell will be the nodal point to examine any human rights violation reports. To enhance transparency and ensure investigative expertise is available to the section, an Indian Police Service officer of SSP/SP rank will be taken on deputation, as per the mandate. The approval for the human rights cell was given by the Ministry of Defence in August 2019 but it nee...