{"id":320066,"date":"2020-02-17T06:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320066"},"modified":"2020-02-17T06:45:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T06:45:40","slug":"supreme-court-orders-centre-to-grant-permanent-commission-to-women-officers-in-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-orders-centre-to-grant-permanent-commission-to-women-officers-in-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court orders Centre to grant permanent commission to Women officers in Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319455 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-635x420.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Centre to grant permanent commission (PC) to all women officers in the Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court said that after the 2010 judgment of Delhi High Court, Centre should grant permanent commission to women officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court said that the permanent commission would apply to all women officers in the Army, irrespective of their years of service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While reading out the order on the Centre&#8217;s appeal challenging the Delhi High Court&#8217;s ruling in 2010 for granting permanent commission to women officers in the Army, Justice DY Chandrachud said, \u201cWomen in the Army is an evolutionary process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Top Court said Centre\u2019s contentions regarding issue of physiological limitations and social norms to deny an opportunity to women officers is disturbing and can&#8217;t be accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Centre, by not giving permanent commission to women officers, had prejudiced the case,&#8221; the Apex Court said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Centre to grant permanent commission (PC) to all women officers in the Army. The Supreme Court said that after the 2010 judgment of Delhi High Court, Centre should grant permanent commission to women officers. The court said that the permanent commission would apply to all women officers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320069,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320066\/revisions\/320069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}