Discipline is the implicit hallmark of the Armed Forces and a non-negotiable condition of service, the Supreme Court said while turning down an Army personnel's plea against his dismissal for overstaying the leave granted to him.
The appellant enrolled in the Army Service Corps as a mechanical transport driver on January 4, 1983.
In 1998, he was initially granted leave for 39 days from November 8 to December 16. His request for extension of the leave on compassionate grounds was allowed by the respondents and he was granted a 30-day advance annual leave for the year 1999 from December 17, 1998, to January 15, 1999.
