Sir, there is no guarantee this act was violated. For all we know it may have been after work hours at a bar or pub where he got hooked with the spy.
If the law says during the course of duty he is not supposed to meet women when working in a foreign country while representing India then I would arrest my case. But if the law says he is not supposed to meet a woman at all(even in India) as it is unbecoming of an officer, then that truly makes no sense whatsoever.
We shouldn't be talking about promiscuity when in fact it may even have been the exact opposite. So, considering that is the case, does the law apply here?
IMHO he was looking for a good time and got stuck with a vamp. It could happen to anybody, generally speaking.
However his punishment is at the discretion of the Army, so we may not know of the facts.
I take it that there was no guarantee that the law was not violated, because it was not violated, prima facie, the issue would not arise.
I also concede that morality has diluted. In the old days, if your cheque bounced, it was a court martial offence since it was unbecoming conduct for an officer to issue dud cheques as such an act would belittle the faith one has in the officer.
One does not get 'hooked' to a woman. Even if 'hooked', one would be wary of parting with any information about the army which is not in the public domain. And if the woman is too keen to know, then any officer so 'hooked' would quit that relationship. If he persists and parts with information, then that is cognizable.
In this particular case, it has not been mentioned if the Counter Intelligence had got a whiff and had recorded their amorous behaviour and talk.
I wonder if you know of the infamous Profumo - Christine Keeler case of the UK.
Brigadier John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo CBE was the Secretary of State for War. He was involved with a prostitute Christine Keeler. She also had sexual relations with Yevgeni Ivanov, the senior naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy, and so the Profumo Affair took on a national security dimension. He had to resign and with this case the decline and fall of the Harold Macmillan's Govt.
Therefore, one can draw one's own conclusion as to what serious consequences such dalliance can have.