New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the pleas of several women SSC officers seeking grant of permanent commission in the Indian Army and held that the ACR evaluation process was flawed and discriminatory in nature.
In its order, the top court said the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) evaluation criteria for grant of permanent commission to women officers ignored the achievement and laurels brought by them to the Army.
A bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said the process by which women officers were evaluated did not address the gender discrimination concern raised in the verdict delivered by the Supreme Court last year.
In its 17 February verdict, the court had directed that women officers in the Army be granted permanent commission, rejecting the Centre’s stand of their physiological limitations as being based on “sex stereotypes” and “gender discrimination against women”.
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