More than 100 Unhappy Army officers move SC alleging discrimination

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More than 100 Unhappy Army officers move SC alleging discriminati

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Several Lieutenant Colonels and Majors of the Indian Army have moved the Supreme Court challenging discrimination in rank promotion of officers in the service corps.

The major argument raised by the officers who have filed the petition, not only criticizes the service corps being deployed in operations where they are not supposed to be part of, however, also raises concerns on being denied the benefits that should be due to them.

The service corps of the Indian Army are primarily responsible to provide logistics to the Army. “This act of Army and Union government (discrimination in promotion) has created tremendous injustice to the petitioners and others which is detrimental to the morale of the officers and, in turn, to the defence of the country,” read the petition.

Last year, the honourable Supreme Court had settled a petition that was filed by the service corps, claiming only a few colonel posts allocated for promotion.

The defense experts see this as a fresh challenge for the newly appointed Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

 

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More than 100 Unhappy Army officers move SC alleging discriminati

http://www.jantakareporter.com/india/unhappy-army-officers/148490/

Several Lieutenant Colonels and Majors of the Indian Army have moved the Supreme Court challenging discrimination in rank promotion of officers in the service corps.

The major argument raised by the officers who have filed the petition, not only criticizes the service corps being deployed in operations where they are not supposed to be part of, however, also raises concerns on being denied the benefits that should be due to them.

The service corps of the Indian Army are primarily responsible to provide logistics to the Army. “This act of Army and Union government (discrimination in promotion) has created tremendous injustice to the petitioners and others which is detrimental to the morale of the officers and, in turn, to the defence of the country,” read the petition.

Last year, the honourable Supreme Court had settled a petition that was filed by the service corps, claiming only a few colonel posts allocated for promotion.

The defense experts see this as a fresh challenge for the newly appointed Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

There has always been tension between blue berets and green. This will not be solved until general officers from the fighting arms realise that an Army marches on its stomach. Perhaps we should teach more in the military courses at various levels about the arrangements that Marlborough, and, following his example but by no means alone, Wellington, made in logistical support for their operations.

Unfortunately, the service corps officers have to understand that we cannot afford to have a repeat of the Kaul episode, where a totally unfit officer with zero combat command experience was sought to be edged into the right position for the highest levels. Corps commanders and above will necessarily have to be from the fighting arms, except perhaps for one or two of the Principal Officers.

 

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Over 100 Indian Army Officers Move Supreme Court Complaining Of Discrimination

Over 100 officers of the Indian Army have moved the Supreme Court alleging discrimination in promotions of members of the services corps.

The petitioners, including lieutenant colonels and majors, have said that personnel from the Army's service corps are being deployed in operations, which they are not supposed to be part of, but are deprived of the promotions and benefits that should accompany it.

The service corps handles the army's logistics support and has nearly 10,000 officers, Scroll. in added.

"The action of the Army and the Union government in selectively treating officers of the service corps as 'operational' for the purpose of deployment in operational areas, but 'non-operational' for the purpose of being considered for promotion is violating the fundamental rights of the petitioners and other middle-level Army officers," the petition read, according to The Times of India.

It further added that members of the service corps do not enjoy immunity under the Geneva Conventions, according to The New Indian Express. "If caught on foreign soil, [the service corps] shall be tried not as soldiers but under the criminal law of the country," the petition said.

In February 2016, the Supreme Court had settled a petition filed by the service corps, which claimed that there were not enough colonel posts allocated for promotion. The controversy, as TNIE pointed out, began with the army's 2009 promotion policy, based on the recommendations of a committee headed by former defence secretary Ajai Vikram Singh. It was later challenged in the Armed Forces Tribunal.

The discontent still continues to simmer, as is evident from the recent legal twist in the case.

The officer mortality rate among the service corps in the Kargil War was 1.77 per thousand, which is more than any other component of the regular army.

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