Women Army Officers complain in SC for Permanent Commission

Nov 25, 2020 #Indian Army #SC #Women Officers

Nisha Ghosal

The Women Army Officers went to the Supreme Court to expose the details of the defence establishment’s announcement.

They stated that in between 615 women officers, 422 were found eligible for granting permanent commission (PC).

But, only 277 women officers have been granted PC, whereas 90% of male officers have been granted PC.

Adv Chitrangda Rastravara and Adv Archana Pathak Dave, on behalf of the women officers, placed an urgent application, which said:

“The exercise for grant of PC has been carried out more in optics, than in substance, rendering itself to be yet another instance of lip-service, adding to the long unfortunate chain of symbolic and pyrrhic victories.”

“Denying PC to scores of extremely meritorious and outstanding women officers based on unknown, undisclosed and surreptitious parameters, deviating from the settled norms as applied to gentlemen officers while granting them PC, smacks of gross arbitrariness.”

The application further said, “Hence, the figure 422 is reached after taking into account several categories and it clearly reflects that the Army has not granted PC to even 50% of the total number of women officers distributed across 31 batches.”

The selection result was announced on 19th November.

Earlier, the Supreme Court, upholding the Delhi High Court’s 2010 judgement, had observed, “Women officers of the Indian Army have brought laurels to the force… Their track record of service to the nation is beyond reproach.”

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