IAF In landmark ruling, Delhi HC grants full pension to 32 women air force officers
New Delhi/IBNS: In a landmark judgement, the Delhi High Court Wednesday granted a full pension to 32 women who have been fighting for the right to serve the Indian Air Force for more than their Short Service Commission tenure of five years.
This full pension is equivalent to officers who went on to serve for 20 years.
The legal battle for these 32 women IAF officers lasted 12 years. They had to retire before they won the case.
Three of the officers are widows who lost their husbands in the service of the nation.
They had been granted a commission into the IAF on compassionate grounds.
In passing its order Wednesday, the Delhi High Court referred to the 2020 Babita Puniya order of the Supreme Court, which said that the armed forces exercise discrimination while hiring women who were being excluded from positions that they were otherwise entitled to.
The Supreme Court order had then paved the way for an increase in the intake of women officers into the armed forces.
They now have the option to serve a full career, which earlier was restricted to a maximum of 10 or 14 years.
(Reporting by Susanta Paral)
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