India, Sept. 25 -- The Supreme Court has said it will examine allegations of discrimination and denial of permanent commission, even as it will not review the Army's policy of a 14-year tenure for short-service commission officers (SSCO).

A bench of justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan, and N Kotiswar Singh said this as it took up the appeals on Wednesday against the July 2024 Armed Forces Tribunal's denial of permanent commissions. The court is considering 84 petitions of the 2010 and 2011 batch SSCOs. The women petitioners have alleged wrong calculation of vacancies and challenged the allocation of only 250 vacancies in a calendar year, and the consideration of two highly unequal and distinct classes, women and gentlemen officers.

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