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Army doesn’t want others to wear fatigues

Fearing attack from terrorists, Indian Army wants law to bar easy access to its uniform.

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The Indian Army uniform is getting too ‘uniform’. The Border Security Force personnel are wearing a similar fatigue, complain army officials. Private security agencies and owners of factories, restaurants, farm houses, big shops, malls and plush colonies too are draping their guards in army uniform.

It has given the terrorists chance to masquerade in army uniform. The October 10 strike by Taliban gunmen at the Pakistan army headquarters in Rawalpindi brought back memories of the 2002 Swaminarayan Temple attack in Gandhinagar. More than 50 civilians were killed when Kashmiri separatists, dressed like National Security Guard commandos, fired indiscriminately inside the temple.

There had been other similar massacres — the attack on Amarnath pilgrims; at Raghunath temple in Jammu. Dressed in army uniforms, the terrorists found it easier to kill.
The Indian Army has renewed its demand for a law barring everyone else from donning its combat uniform. “If a civilian can purchase an army uniform from a garment store, so can terrorists,” said a senior army official.

To bar access to its uniform, the Army has suggested that only authorised stores and tailors, located at military cantontments, be allowed to sell the uniform. And that too, on confirmation that the buyer was an armyman.

There is also a demand for unauthorised use of the uniform being made a cognisable and non-bailable offence, with mandatory and automatic punishment.

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