Army initiates disciplinary action against Major Leetul Gogoi over hotel row

The Court of inquiry of the Indian Army has initiated disciplinary action against Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi, who was briefly detained by J&K Police after an altercation while entering a hotel in Srinagar with a young Kashmiri woman in May.

The questionable incident took place on May 23 this year. Major Gogoi, along with a local Kashmiri woman and a person identified as Sameer Ahmed, also a part of the Army, were involved in an altercation with the hotel’s staff who had refused to the local woman’s entry in the hotel. Following the altercation at the Hotel Grand Mamta, the Jammu and Kashmir Police detained Gogoi.

Army chief General Bipin Rawat, in the days that followed the incident, had promised exemplary punishment for Gogoi if the major was found to be ‘in violation of the service’s rules’.

This isn’t the first time Major Gogoi has become embroiled in controversy as during last year’s bypoll for Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, he tied a civilian to the bonnet of an Army jeep in order to help his team of soldiers and some government officials escape from a polling station that had come under the attack of stone-pelters.

Major Leetul Gogoi was detained by the Jammu and Kashmir Police from a hotel with a woman on May 23. He was allegedly involved in a brawl with the woman at the hotel. https://t.co/Yk0oQUtLP8

— ANI (@ANI) August 27, 2018

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