New Delhi, March 24 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday called out 'entrenched disadvantages' in the 'systemic framework' responsible for the denial of Permanent Commission to women officers in the Armed Forces, observing that the assessment of women officers was based on an underlying assumption that they would not progress far in their careers.
A Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh, in a judgment delivered on Tuesday, said, ".we find that the denial of PC to SSCWOs was not merely the outcome of individual assessments, but the consequence of a systemic framework rooted in assumptions that entrenched disadvantages in career progression. Where the evaluative framework applied to assess...