New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Indian Army and the Centre on a plea seeking a review of the Sahayak system and its alleged misuse.
The plea, filed by journalist Poonam Agarwal, comes weeks after Lance Naik Roy Mathew, a jawan who was seen criticising the system in a sting operation video, was found dead in a barrack in a Maharashtra cantonment.
His death had triggered calls for introspection and for the orderly system, considered a colonial relic, to be abolished.
Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre, however, told Parliament during the recently concluded Budget Session that there was no proposal to do away with the Sahayak system.
In a written reply to Lok Sabha, he had said that grievances brought to the notice of military authorities were properly redressed, and added that there was a new system in place in which the grievance could be aired directly to the Army Chief through WhatsApp, after a soldier has exhausted all other options.
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