Pak boat row: Coast Guard DIG a habitual offender in disciplinary matters, says reports
New Delhi, Feb 19: Coast Guard DIG BK Loshali who raked controversy by saying that the Pakistani terror boat, which blew itself up on the night of December 31, 2014 off the Porbandar coast, was actually destroyed by the Coast Guard, is not new to controversies.
According to report in IBN live, the Coast Guard DIG has been a serial offender in disciplinary matters. "He was previously pulled up for consuming too much alcohol. He was also removed from operational command of a ship in 2008," said the report.
Meanwhile, Loshali has been served a showcause notice for his comments.
Loshali on Tuesday raked controversy by saying that he had ordered blowing up an intruding Pakistani boat off Porbandar coast on new year eve, but later he made a U-turn, claiming he was misquoted.
However, the Indian Express uploaded the video of DIG BK Loshali in which he says that he ordered on December 31 night to "blow up that boat" "Let me tell you. I hope you remember 31st December night... We blew off that Pakistan... We have blown them off. I was there at Gandhinagar and I told at night, blow the boat off. We don't want to serve them biryani," he said at a function in Surat yesterday.
Later
Loshali
said,
"I
was
not
privy
to
whatever
was
happening.
I
have
been
misquoted.
I
had
mentioned
that
no
anti-national
element
will
be
allowed
to
breach
our
coastal
security
and
we
are
not
going
to
serve
them
biryani.
Inspector
General
KR
Nautiyal
said
in
Delhi
that
that
they
had
received
a
statement
from
Loshali
who
had
denied
making
any
such
statement.
What
he
said,
Loshali
claimed,
was
that
"anti-national"
elements
won't
be
served
briyani
and
dealt
with
according
to
the
law
of
the
land.
Defence Ministry and Minister Manohar Parrikar had said soon after the incident that the boat set itself on fire when its crew were asked to surrender.
OneIndia
News
(With
agency
inputs)