‘If you don’t, we will’: SC tells Centre to grant permanent commission to women officers in Indian Coast Guard
“Women cannot be left out,” Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud said Monday while asking the Central government to ensure that eligible women officers get permanent commission in the Indian Coast Guard. He further said that if the government does not do so, the Supreme Court will take the necessary steps.
“All these functionality etc argument does not hold water in the year 2024. Women cannot be left out. If you do not do it, we will do it. So take a look at that,” the CJI said.
A Supreme Court bench led by CJI Chandrachud was hearing the plea of Priyanka Tyagi, a woman officer in the Coast Guard, who was seeking permanent commission to eligible women short-service commission officers of the force.
Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra were also part of the Bench, which took note of submissions by Attorney General R Venkataramani that there were some functional and operational difficulties in granting permanent commissions.
In response to the Attorney General’s statement that a Board has been set up by the ICG to look into the issues, the Court said that women must be on the board.
Earlier, the bench had said that the maritime force must come up with a policy which treats women “fairly”.
The hearing of the plea has been fixed for Friday.
“You speak of ‘nari shakti’ (woman power). Now show it here. You are in the deep end of the sea in this matter. You must come up with a policy which treats women fairly,” the bench had observed at the previous hearing last week.
It had also asked whether the Union was still adopting “a patriarchal approach” despite the judgments of the top court on the grant of permanent commission to women officers in the three armed forces – Army, Air Force and the Navy.
“Why are you being so patriarchal? You do not want to see the face of women in the Coast Guard,” the bench had asked Additional Solicitor General Vikramjit Banerjee, who appeared for the ICG earlier. The court also questioned why the ICG was not granting women permanent commissions when the Indian Navy was.
The bench also asked the Centre to come up with a gender-neutral policy on the issue.
(With PTI inputs)
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