Army Colonel Dismissed From Service Over Affair With Fellow Officer's Wife

A General Court Martial (GCM) on Wednesday dismissed a Colonel from the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME) after he was found guilty of having an improper relationship with the wife of another

Colonel. The case, which began in May 2025 at ‘N’ Area in Chandigarh, concluded after months of detailed proceedings.

The court martial, presided over by Brigadier Jagminder Singh Gill of Headquarters Uniform Force and six Colonels as members, was convened by Major General K Mahesh, General Officer Commanding of the 8 Mountain Division. The sentence is now subject to confirmation by the convening authority, The Indian Express reported.

The Colonel faced four charges under different sections of the Army Act. The first charge, under Section 45, accused him of communicating with the other officer’s wife through telephone calls at odd hours between September 2021 and August 2022. The court martial, however, found him not guilty of this charge. The complainant’s husband had alleged that he received his wife’s call details in a package sent anonymously.

The second and third charges, also under Section 45, involved the Colonel allegedly staying in hotels in Haridwar and Dehradun with the officer’s wife in September 2021 and April 2022. The Colonel was found guilty of both charges.

The fourth charge, under Section 69, concerned the use of a forged document. The Colonel was accused of using the wife’s ‘Dependent Card’ fraudulently, which the court found to be true, resulting in a guilty verdict.

During the trial, the complainant, married since 2006, said he noticed changes in his wife’s behaviour following her trips to Haridwar and Leh, where accommodation had been arranged by the accused.

The wife, however, presented a different narrative. She testified that she had been a classmate of the accused since primary school and, as a 42-year-old adult, had the right to decide whom to interact with. She also denied staying in any hotel with him and mentioned long-standing matrimonial disputes, including domestic violence, dowry harassment, and sexual abuse, that made it impossible for her to continue living with her husband.