The Institute of Military Law (IML), a premier institute of armed forces, will celebrate its silver jubilee on Saturday at its premises in Kamptee near here.
IML is a unique training institute incorporating complete administrative and academic infrastructure together with flexibility for innovations and experimentation in the pursuit of excellence.
The institute is presently commanded by Colonel Sandeep Kumar.
After independence, India framed its own military law in the form of Army Act, 1950.
In order to provide formal training to the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Department and regimental officers in the field of Military Law and also to provide a regimental centre to the JAG department, a necessity of creating training institute was felt which could serve as the home to the department, a release from Defence PRO stated here today.
It was Brigadier Amarpal Singh, the then Judge Advocate General, during 1970 who had the "foresight" to plan and moot the establishment of an institute that would cater to the formal training of officers in military law.
The institute has grown in eminence and academic professionalism to be able to impart to officers of the services the basic knowledge of military and allied laws, to train officers with legal qualifications and aptitude in legal and judicial aspect of 'A' staff work, prosecution and defence and educate senior officers in the diverse legal functions of commanders and staff officers.
Presently, Institute of Military Law is conducting Judge Advocates Basic Course (JAC), Judge Advocates Advance Course (JAAC), Middle Level Commanders & Staff Officers Law Course (MLSC) and Special List Officers Law Course (SLLC), the release added.
The institute has so far trained 3231 officers and a total of 186 courses were conducted.
Officers from friendly countries like Bangladesh, Botswana, Nepal, Seychelles, Tonga, USA have also been trained at the Institute.
