In what was hailed as a historic move, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court last September unanimously decriminalised part of the 158-year-old colonial law under Section 377 of the IPC which criminalises consensual unnatural sex, saying it violated the rights to equality.
Addressing the audience at Riasina Dialogue in New Delhi, General Rawat said Kashmiri youth is getting radicalised due to misinformation and falsehood about religion being fed to them.
Besides, it also was mulling recruiting women for the military police, he told reporters here on the sidelines of the combined graduation parade at the Air Force Academy in Dundigal on the city outskirts.
"Aksar dekha gaya hai ki log Bharatiya Sena ko ek employment ka jariya manate hai, naukari hasil karane ka jariya (It is often seen that people feel the Army is a means of employment, a means to get a job)," Gen Rawat said.
Earlier in the day, Jeetu Fauji who allegedly shot at Police Inspector Subodh Singh was arrested.
The Army Chief's response came following Pak PM Imran Khan's statement acknowledging that the Mumbai terror attack was perpetrated by LeT.
While maintaining that there was no immediate threat of militancy in Punjab, the Indian Army Chief, General Bipin Rawat, said on Monday that there was a need to be alert about it.
"See we have a neighbouring country which always tries to vitiate atmosphere here. Our country is progressing which is not liked by them," Rawat told reporters.
Rawat also said that attempts were being made again through 'external linkages' and 'external abetment' to revive insurgency in Assam.
He said within the Indo-Pacific, the Indian Ocean Region remains India's primary area of interest. India, he said, is committed to uphold and strengthen the rules-based order in Indo-Pacific.
Responding to the pattern of attacks, the Army chief said the security force was studying whether the attacks were carried out by snipers.
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Yes,it's time to give it back to them in the same coin, not resorting to similar kind of barbarism. But I think the other side must also feel the same pain: Army Chief
General Rawat further added that the Indian Army would also be like Neeraj Chopra, the Asian Games javelin gold medallist who reached out to his Pakistani competitor, if Pakistan makes the first move.
Rawat said social media can be leveraged for psychological warfare and deception not just in conventional warfare, but also in combating proxy war insurgency and terrorism.
General Rawat stressed that the Army operates under strict guidelines that clearly point out that civilians should not be inconvenienced in any military action.
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