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Army court orders woman officer`s dismissal:  An army court took a decision against a woman officer who alleged three seniors. Army court took near about five months to take this decision. An Army court ordered to fire woman officer from the service.  The army officer Poonam Kaur has been removed from the position because of falsely blaming her seniors. She had allegated falsely three officers of her unit that they had mentally and sexually harassed her. She blamed her superiors last year. On July 15, 2008 she alleged three officers of her unit 5682 Battalion of the army supply corps based in Kalka, Haryana for harassment. The officers whom she accused are Col RK Sharma, Lt Col Chawla and Major Suraj Bhan. A COI ordered to investigate the charges against superiors. The investigation report concluded there was no basis for these charges and recommend court martial against her false charges. The army court has taken decision after five months of hearing. The court martial had assembled in Division head quarter at Patiala in Punjab gave order on July 10, 2009 that Poonam Kaur be sacked.  Captain Kaur had been charged on 10 counts including disobedience, making false allegation against her superior officers etc.  Army court decision which came after about five months hearing will send their decision to Western Army Commander Lt. gen. TK Sapru for confirmation.

Second woman officer court-martialed:  Poonam Kaur is not only the woman officer who is court martial led by army court. There was another woman officer who was court martial led before her but her court martial was stayed. Poonam is the second woman officer in the history of army court who is to be martial-led. The first woman officer was Dimple Singla. She was court martial led in 2006. The allegation on her was that she was evolved in corruption with the judge advocate General Branch of the army. Dimple Singla’s court martial was stayed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2007.

Aggarwal protest Poonam Kaur: The kaur’s counsel, Colonel (retired) S k Aggarwal claimed that Poonam Kaur charges were never investigated by COI. He said allegations against three officers have been tried to hide. He said that army authorities never looked into them during investigation. He also stand by the statement that Poonam Kaur never addressed media for service matters. He said she never mentioned in front of media about the sexual harassment allegation against three officers. He said people would have never known what is happening in Army and the ladies are not safe. He said army court decision was too harsh even if she was found guilty.

Jackson ‘had a string of gay lovers’: Michael Jackson, the king of pop, pop legend has been regularly in news after his death on June 25, 2009. Michael’s family has been offended some of the reports about Jackson that have come to light recently. Another breaking news report that has surfaced at this time is that ‘King of Pop was a gay and had string of gay lovers’. He had huge fans list of gays. This statement is written in a book on Michael Jackson.  Jackson was repeatedly denied being gay before his sudden death in late June. The author Ian Halperin declared in his book Unmasked: ‘The final year of Michael Jackson’ that Michael Jackson had several gay lovers. Ian Halperin was biographer of Michael Jackson. He claims that he interviewed many people for the book and they all told him that Michael was a gay. The book also claims that everybody close to the Pop legend knew he was a gay. Halperin declares that he has traced male lovers of Legend. He claims to have tracked down two of super star alleged male lover. The two lovers he traced were a Hollywood waiter and an aspiring actor called Lawrence. One of them said that pop star would sneak out of his home dressed as a woman for late night secretly. The source said, Michael would leave the house in mask to hide the personality, and would go to meet his boyfriend in a motel. He said,” Everybody told me that he was a gay. Even his most loyal supporter told the same. People, who maintain he is innocent of the molestation charges, insist that he was homosexually inclined.

Unmasked: The final year of Michael Jackson: This is a new book that is due to be released by Ian Halperin on July 14, 2009. This book told the world that Michael Jackson had only six months to live. The author’s investigation into Michael Jackson shocked the world. His investigation into Michael health made the headline around the world. Everyone get shocked. But sadly six month later in June, 2009 Michael past away which made the world more disappointed as the world was already in a shock to know about his death. This book uncovered the real story of the Michael Jackson’s final year. Ian wrote this book after an intense five year investigation on Michael Jackson.

Ian Halperin: He is a Canadian investigative journalist who is the author of nine books. In Dec, 2008 Halperin predicted that Jackson had six months to live. He released a book Unmasked on the final year of the Jackson. The BBC reported that Halperin released an unauthorized biography on pop star. But this statement was denied by Jackson’s representative. Halperin commented on the timing of the book,” I timed it because I knew around this time he was a candidate to die. I am totally up-front about that.”