New Delhi:
While giving a verdict in favor of giving permanent commission (PC) to women officers in the Indian Army, in 2020, the Supreme Court accepted the achievements of Colonel Sofia Qureshi, one of the two female officers who informed the media on ‘Operation Sindor’ on Wednesday.
On February 17, 2020, in the verdict, the apex court said that the complete boycott of women from all posts, except for the assignments of the employees, was uncertain in the army and their blanket non-conception could not be placed in the law for command appointments without any justification.
The apex court, which allowed women officers in the army to permanent commission (PC), said that a complete prohibition of the Women’s Small Services Commission (SSC) officers asked to obtain anything, but the employees’ appointments apparently did not fulfill the purpose of giving the PC to the PC as a means of career progress in the army.
The apex court also mentioned the distinctions obtained by female officials, and an example of the achievements of Colonel Qureshi.
“Lieutenant Colonel Sophia Qureshi (Army Signal Corps) is the first woman to lead an Indian Army team in a multi-national military exercise called ‘Exercise Force 18’, the largest foreign military exercise organized by India.
The apex court said, “She has worked in the peace campaign of the United Nations in the Congo in 2006, where she was in charge of monitoring ceasefire and assisting human activities in those countries. Her jobs included ensuring peace in the struggle affected areas,” the top court said.
Focusing on the affidavit of the Center in the case, the court had said that the counter affidavit had a wide expansion of the service provided by the SSC authorities for the cause of the nation, working shoulder to shoulder with its male counterparts.
“Nevertheless, the role is demanded to dilute that role from repeated arguments before this court that women have a less important role than their biological creation and social miles, their male counterparts.
The apex court said, “Such a line is disturbing as it ignores constitutional values that are bound to maintain and facilitate every institution in the nation. Indian Army women officials have brought laurel in force,” the apex court said.
During media briefing on Wednesday, Colonel Qureshi of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh flicked Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on the dias, who made an initial statement from the government.
A few hours after the Indian Armed Forces under ‘Operation Sindoor’, a few hours after briefing, missile attacks on nine terrorist targets were carried out on 22 April in Pakistan and Pakistan -occupied Kashmir (POK).
Born in 1974 in Vadodara, Gujarat, Colonel Qureshi graduated in 1997 from Manonmanium Sundranar University with a master in Biochemistry.
An officer in the Critical Corps of the signal, in the past, was selected for the role of a military observer in the Congo in 2006, besides the flood relief operation in the Northeast region.
The officer broke the glass roof when in 2016, she became the first female officer to lead her troop in multi-national field training exercises, exercise force 18, which was hosted by India for a difference in maintaining peace among the ASEAN nations.
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