The Army said that it was probing the claim of a young Afghan woman who alleged that a married Indian Army doctor duped her into wedlock.
NEW DELHI: The Army said on Tuesday that it was probing the claim of a young Afghan woman who alleged that a married Indian Army doctor duped her into wedlock during his stint in the Indian Mission in Kabul.
Army's director general of Medical Services lt gen NK Parmar said the allegations against major Dr Chandrashekhar Pant were being investigated and if found guilty action will be taken against the doctor.
"Action will be taken based on the report of the investigation," Parmar said here.
A resident of Kabul, Sabra Khan, on Monday met home minister P Chidambaram seeking his permission to prosecute the doctor.
Noting that the case is a complex one as a foreign national is involved in it, Parmer said the Army was not denying. "We will have to find out the truth and if he is found guilty, action will be taken against him."
He, however, said the doctor has denied all the allegations.
According to Sabra, she worked with the Indian Mission in Kabul, when she married major Dr Chandrashekhar Pant for whom she had worked as a translator in 2006.
The doctor had converted to Islam to marry her and changed his name to Himmat Khan but did not reveal his actual marital status, claimed Sabra, who is in India for the past one month to seek justice.
Sabra said she came to India last month and went to meet the major at the Army hospital at Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, but did not get a favourable response from him.
The police, with whom she registered a complaint, expressed inability to take any further action in the matter without the permission of the Central government as the offence has been committed outside India's territory.
Asked about whether action was being also initiated against colonel Sunder Yadav who was arrested on December 13 for allegedly misbehaving with a 30-year-old army doctor in the Chanakyapuri area, Parmar said the matter was also under investigation.
Yadav (53), the registrar of Army College of Medical Sciences in Delhi Cant, was arrested on a complaint by the woman, who works as a doctor at the Base hospital.
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