Defence tribunal to sit in City

 To enable the litigants from Karnataka to file cases coming under the purview of the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, the Chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal has announced regular bi-monthly sitting in Circuit Bench in Bangalore.

The next sitting of the Tribunal’s Regional Bench Kochi in Circuit Bench, will be held at the Parachute Regimental Training Centre (PRTC), near Doordarshan Kendra, JC Nagar, Bangalore from July 28 to August 1. There will be no sitting on July 29 due to Id-ul-Fitr (Ramzan), a defence ministry release said.

The Armed Forces Tribunal was set up under the
 provisions of the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007 for the adjudication or trial of disputes and conditions of service in respect of persons subject to the Army Act, the Navy Act and the Air Force Act. 

The objective was also to provide for appeals arising out of orders, findings or sentences of Court Martial held under the said Acts and for matters connected there with or incidental there to.