New Delhi: The Army is saying no to women. CNN-IBN learns the Army will file a petition before the Supreme Court saying a High Court order to grant permanent commission to women is simply "not implementable".
The Army will file a special leave petition comes after the Delhi High Court on Monday issued a contempt notice to Army Chief General V K Singh for not complying with its March 12 order to grant permanent commissions to women officers who had approached the court complaining of gender bias in the armed forces
Officials told CNN-IBN the petition's is likely to say that the Army is not ready to grant permanent commission to women officers. The Army says it lacks infrastructure to integrate women in such a role or even in supporting arms like the service corps and Signals
The Army believes that granting permanent commission would open the floodgates as retired women officers would want to be taken back.
The Delhi High Court has also issued notices to Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar and the adjutant general at Army Headquarters, Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal, on a contempt petition filed by women short service commission officers alleging that the Army is still to grant them permanent commissions and other monetary benefits ordered by the court.
Acting on a petition filed in 2007 by 60 women short service commission officers, the court had asked the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) to grant them permanent commissions.
Women are now eligible for permanent commission only in the education, legal, medical, nursing and dental services of the armed forces. They get to serve for a shorter duration in non-combat or support arms of the armed forces.
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