NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of Lieutenant Samuel Kamlesan, a Christian army officer, for refusing to take part in a regimental \u2018Sarva Dharma\u2019 ritual at a cantonment in Punjab, calling his conduct \u201cthe biggest kind of indiscipline\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lt Kamlesan, who was commanding Sikh, Jat and Rajput troops, allegedly declined to enter the Sarva Dharma Sthal \u2014 a space symbolically representing all religions \u2014 citing his monotheistic belief.<\/p>\n
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi dismissed his plea and criticised his behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of message is he sending\u2026 He should have been fired just for that\u2026 This is the biggest kind of indiscipline on the part of an army officer,\u201d the bench said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of Lieutenant Samuel Kamlesan, a Christian army officer, for refusing to take part in a regimental \u2018Sarva Dharma\u2019 ritual at a cantonment in Punjab, calling his conduct \u201cthe biggest kind of indiscipline\u201d. Lt Kamlesan, who was commanding Sikh, Jat and Rajput troops, allegedly declined to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,37],"tags":[11594,11593],"class_list":["post-55898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-national","tag-army-officer-who-refused-sarva-dharma-ritual","tag-supreme-court-upholds-dismissal-of-christian-army-officer"],"yoast_head":"\n