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NEW DELHI: As a group of aggrieved women officers who were denied Permanent Commission allegedly in violation of Supreme Court order filed a contempt petition against the Army Chief, the Centre on Friday told the court that it has further cleared the names of 39 officers for PC after reconsideration but rejected pleas of 29 officers.
Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain and senior advocate R Balasubramanian,appearing for the governemnt, informed a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and B V Nagarathna that a comprehensive exercise has been carried out once again to re-determine the entitlement of seventy one Women Short Service Commissioned Officers. They told the court that all of them secured more than 60% marks but one officer has applied for release and seven officers declared medically unfit.
Out of the sixty four officers, it was submitted that thirty nine officers have been found, upon re-consideration, to be eligible for the grant of PC. Recording the submission of the Centre, the bench directed that the order for grant of permanent commission be passed by the governemnt by November 1.
Jain further submitted that rest of the twenty five officers were not found to be eligible on disciplinary grounds and, in certain cases, on other issues, such as, integrity or disobedience of lawful orders and operational weak reports. He told teh bencht hat male officers have also been denied PC on similar grounds and, there has been no discrimination with women officers. He said that if the women officers are granted PC despite the adverse report against them then their male counterparts would also approach the court to get permanent commission.
There are 36 officers who approached the apex court through their lawyer Gaichangpou Gangmei seeking contempt proceedings against army chief and officers for rejecting their claim for PC in violation of apex court’s order passed in March.
The bench thereafter directed the Centre to apprise of the grounds on the basis of which PC was denied to the remaining officers.
“If any of the officers forming part of the group of thirty six WSSCOs in the present batch of contempt petitions are not found eligible for the grant of PC, a statement shall be tendered before this Court in a tabulated form indicating the reasons why each of the officers who are not found eligible are being denied PC,” the court said.
“An affidavit shall be filed on behalf of the respondents before the next date of listing expressly stating that no reasons independent of the directions which have been issued by this Court have weighed in the grant or, as the case may be, refusal of PC to the seventy two officers concerned. In other words, once there is a final judgment and order of this Court dated March 25, 2021, the consideration for the grant of PC has to be confined to the specific directions issued by this Court and not on any grounds independent of the directions,” it said.
Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain and senior advocate R Balasubramanian,appearing for the governemnt, informed a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and B V Nagarathna that a comprehensive exercise has been carried out once again to re-determine the entitlement of seventy one Women Short Service Commissioned Officers. They told the court that all of them secured more than 60% marks but one officer has applied for release and seven officers declared medically unfit.
Out of the sixty four officers, it was submitted that thirty nine officers have been found, upon re-consideration, to be eligible for the grant of PC. Recording the submission of the Centre, the bench directed that the order for grant of permanent commission be passed by the governemnt by November 1.
Jain further submitted that rest of the twenty five officers were not found to be eligible on disciplinary grounds and, in certain cases, on other issues, such as, integrity or disobedience of lawful orders and operational weak reports. He told teh bencht hat male officers have also been denied PC on similar grounds and, there has been no discrimination with women officers. He said that if the women officers are granted PC despite the adverse report against them then their male counterparts would also approach the court to get permanent commission.
There are 36 officers who approached the apex court through their lawyer Gaichangpou Gangmei seeking contempt proceedings against army chief and officers for rejecting their claim for PC in violation of apex court’s order passed in March.
The bench thereafter directed the Centre to apprise of the grounds on the basis of which PC was denied to the remaining officers.
“If any of the officers forming part of the group of thirty six WSSCOs in the present batch of contempt petitions are not found eligible for the grant of PC, a statement shall be tendered before this Court in a tabulated form indicating the reasons why each of the officers who are not found eligible are being denied PC,” the court said.
“An affidavit shall be filed on behalf of the respondents before the next date of listing expressly stating that no reasons independent of the directions which have been issued by this Court have weighed in the grant or, as the case may be, refusal of PC to the seventy two officers concerned. In other words, once there is a final judgment and order of this Court dated March 25, 2021, the consideration for the grant of PC has to be confined to the specific directions issued by this Court and not on any grounds independent of the directions,” it said.
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